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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: battle, and yet, when it was over, gathered with the victors to share the
spoils, as old as cowardice and lust in the human and animal world; only to
cease from being when, perhaps, an enlarged and expanded humanity shall
have cast the last slough of its primitive skin.
Every army has its camp-followers, not among its accredited soldiers, but
who follow in its train, ready to attack and rifle the fallen on either
side. To lookers on, they may appear soldiers; but the soldier knows who
they are. At the Judean supper there was one Master, and to the onlooker
there may have seemed twelve apostles; in truth only twelve were of the
company, and one was not of it. There has always been this thirteenth
figure at every sacramental gathering, since the world began, wherever the
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