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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: children around her; her "body"--if you insist on your definition
--must be held to include the bodies of all her children.
And again, the husband who is toiling for the support of the
family, he is thinking and working and toiling and suffering
for a 'self' which includes his wife and children. Do you
mean that the whole family is his "body"? Or a man belongs
to some society, to a church or to a social league of some kind,
and his activities are largely ruled by the interests of this
larger group. Or he sacrifices his life--as many have been doing
of late--with extraordinary bravery and heroism for the sake
of the nation to which he belongs. Must we say then that
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