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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: artificial manners.)
No study of the mere physical differences between individuals of different
races would have enabled us to arrive at any knowledge of their mental
aptitude; nor does the fact that certain individuals of a given human
variety have certain aptitudes form a rational ground for compelling all
individuals of that variety to undertake a certain form of labour.
No analysis, however subtle, of the physical conformation of the Jew could
have suggested a priori, and still less could have proved, apart from ages
of practical experience, that, running parallel with any physical
characteristics which may distinguish him from his fellows, was an innate
and unique intellectual gift in the direction of religion. The fact that,
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