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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: traditions of action and manners, this cause of friction and suffering had
of necessity no existence; individual differences and discord might be
occasioned by personal greeds, ambitions, and selfishnesses, but not by
conflicting conceptions of right and wrong, of the desirable and
undesirable, in all branches of human life. (Only those who have been
thrown into contact with a stationary and homogeneous society such as that
of primitive African tribes before coming in contact with Europeans; or
such as the up-country Boers of South Africa were twenty years ago, can
realise adequately how wholly free from moral and social problems and
social friction such a society can be. It is in studying such societies
that the truth is vividly forced on one, that the key to half, and more
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