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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: by careful and large comparison be shown. But, for the present, we have no
adequate scientific data from which to draw any conclusion, and any attempt
to divide the occupations in which male and female intellects and wills
should be employed, must be to attempt a purely artificial and arbitrary
division: a division not more rational and scientific than an attempt to
determine by the colour of his eyes and the shape and strength of his legs,
whether a lad should be an astronomer or an engraver. Those physical
differences among mankind which divide races and nations--not merely those
differences, enormously greater as they are generally, than any physical
differences between male and female of the same race, which divide the Jew
and the Swede, the Japanese and the Englishman, but even those subtle
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