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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: humanity distinct species, which, having once entered on a course of
evolution and differentiation, might continue to develop along those
distinct lines for countless ages or even for a number of generations,
without reacting through inheritance on each other, the consequences of
such development might ultimately almost completely sever them.
The development of distinct branches of humanity has already brought about
such a severance between races and classes which are in totally distinct
stages of evolution. So wide is the hiatus between them often, that the
lowest form of sex attraction can hardly cross it; and the more highly
developed mental and emotional sex passion cannot possibly bridge it. In
the world of sex, kind seeks kind, and too wide a dissimilarity completely
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