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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: reached, in excess of those possessed by the female. We see no reason why
this should be so, and, in the present state of our knowledge, this is a
point on which no sane person would dogmatise; but it is possible! It may,
on the other hand be, that, taken in the bulk, when all the branches of
productive labour be considered, as the ages pass, the value of the labour
of the two halves of humanity will be found so identical and so closely to
balance, that no superiority can possibly be asserted of either, as the
result of the closest analysis. This also is possible.
But, it may also be, that, when the bulk and sum-total of human activities
is surveyed in future ages, it will be found that the value of the labour
of the female in the world that is rising about us, has exceeded in quality
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