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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: that, in each child we bring to life, not one potentiality shall be lost,
nor squandered on a lesser when it might have been expended on a higher and
more beneficent task. So that not one desirable faculty of the marvellous
creatures we suffer to bring into existence be left uncultivated, to us, as
women, it matters nothing and less than nothing, which sex type excels in
action, in knowledge, or in virtue, so both attain their best. There is
one thing only on earth, as precious to woman as the daughter who springs
from her body--it is the son. There is one thing only dearer to the woman
than herself--it is the man. As no sane human concerns himself as to
whether the right or left ventricle of his heart works most satisfactorily,
or is most essential to his well-being, so both be perfect in health and
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