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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: is not generally or often at the present day the choice between finding new
fields of labour, or death; but one far more serious in its ultimate
reaction on humanity as a whole--it is the choice between finding new forms
of labour or sinking slowly into a condition of more or less complete and
passive sex-parasitism! (It is not without profound interest to note the
varying phenomena of sex-parasitism as they present themselves in the
animal world, both in the male and in the female form. Though among the
greater number of species in the animal world the female form is larger and
more powerful rather than the male (e.g., among birds of prey, such as
eagles, falcons, vultures, &c., and among fishes, insects, &c.), yet sex-
parasitism appears among both sex forms. In certain sea-creatures, for
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