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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: ploughed after each other through Silurian slime, and that still it forms
as ever the warp on which in the loom of human life the web is woven, and
runs as a thread never absent through every design and pattern which
constitutes the individual existence on earth, it appears not merely as
ineradicable; but it is inconceivable to suppose that that attraction of
sex towards sex, which, with hunger and thirst, lie, as the triune
instincts, at the base of animal life on earth, should ever be exterminable
by the comparatively superficial changes resulting from the performance of
this or that form of labour, or the little more or less of knowledge in one
direction or another.
That the female who drives steam-driven looms, producing scores of yards of
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