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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: these are treated like queens. So constantly and so reverentially are they
waited upon that they can seldom have any wishes to express. They are
relieved from every care of existence,-- except the duty of bearing
offspring. Night and day they are cared for in every possible manner. They
alone are superabundantly and richly fed:-- for the sake of the offspring
they must eat and drink and repose right royally; and their physiological
specialization allows of such indulgence ad libitum. They seldom go out,
and never unless attended by a powerful escort; as they cannot be permitted
to incur unnecessary fatigue or danger. Probably they have no great desire
to go out. Around them revolves the whole activity of the race: all its
intelligence and toil and thrift are directed solely toward the well-being
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