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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: Thirdly, the unrest and suffering peculiar to our age is caused by conflict
going on within the individual himself. So intensely rapid is the change
which is taking place in our environment and knowledge that in the course
of a single life a man may pass through half a dozen phases of growth.
Born and reared in possession of certain ideas and manners of action, he or
she may, before middle life is reached, have had occasion repeatedly to
modify, enlarge, and alter, or completely throw aside those traditions.
Within the individuality itself of such persons, goes on, in an intensified
form, that very struggle, conflict, and disco-ordination which is going on
in society at large between its different members and sections; and
agonising moments must arise, when the individual, seeing the necessity for
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