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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: out his deep disapproval of increased knowledge and the freedom of
obtaining the means of subsistence in intellectual fields by woman, and
expresses his vast preference for the uncultured ballet-girl over all types
of cultured and productive labouring womenhood in the universe. A subtle
and profound instinct warns him, that with the increased intelligence and
economic freedom of woman, he, and such as he, might ultimately be left
sexually companionless; the undesirable, the residuary, male old-maids of
the human race.
On the other hand, there is undoubtedly a certain body of females who would
lose, or imagine they would lose, heavily by the advance of woman as a
whole to a condition of free labour and economic independence. That
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