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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: one who shares his fields of toil. But the most superficial study of human
life negates such a supposition. Among men, in spite of the occasional
existence of the petty professional jealousies and antagonism, we find,
viewing society as a whole, that common interests, and above all common
labours, are the most potent means of bringing them into close and friendly
relations; and, in fact, they seem generally essential for the formation of
the closest and most permanent human friendships. In every walk of human
life, whether trade, or profession, we find men associating by choice
mainly with, and entertaining often the profoundest and most permanent
friendships for, men engaged in their own callings. The inner circle of a
barrister's friendships almost always consists of his fellow-barristers;
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