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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: instinctive antagonism of the human child-bearer to reckless destruction of
that which she has at so much cost produced, will be necessary to educate
the race to any clear conception of the bestiality and insanity of war.
War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to
the female an equal share in the control and governance of modern national
life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not
be delayed much longer.
It is especially in the domain of war that we, the bearers of men's bodies,
who supply its most valuable munition, who, not amid the clamour and ardour
of battle, but singly, and alone, with a three-in-the-morning courage, shed
our blood and face death that the battlefield may have its food, a food
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