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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: structure and working of the organism little or nothing to divide the
sexes.
Even when puberty is reached, with its enormous development of sexual and
reproductive activity modifying those parts of the organism with which it
is concerned, and producing certain secondary sexual characteristics, there
yet remains the major extent of the human body and of physical function
little, or not at all, affected by sex modification. The eye, the ear, the
sense of touch, the general organs of nutrition and respiration and
volition are in the main identical, and often differ far more in persons of
the same sex than in those of opposite sexes; and even on the dissecting-
table the tissues of the male and female are often wholly
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