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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woman and Labour, by Olive Schreiner This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Woman and Labour Author: Olive Schreiner Posting Date: September 17, 2008 [EBook #1440] Release Date: August, 1998 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOMAN AND LABOUR *** Produced by Sue Asscher WOMAN AND LABOUR by Olive Schreiner Author of "Dreams," "The Story of an African Farm," "Trooper Peter Halket," "Dream Life and Real Life," etc. etc. Dedicated to Constance Lytton "Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea-- Glory of virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong-- Nay, but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she: Give her the glory of going on and still to be." Tennyson. Olive Schreiner. De Aar, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. 1911. Contents Introduction Chapter I. Parasitism Chapter II. Parasitism (continued) Chapter III. Parasitism (continued) Chapter IV. Woman and War Chapter V. Sex Differences Chapter VI. Certain Objections Introduction. It is necessary to say a few words to explain this book. The original title of the book was "Musings on Woman and Labour." It is, what its name implies, a collection of musings on some of the points connected with woman's work. In my early youth I began a book on Woman. I continued the work till ten years ago. It necessarily touched on most matters in which sex has a part, however incompletely. It began by tracing the differences of sex function to their earliest appearances in life on the globe; not only as when in the animal world, two amoeboid globules coalesce, and the process of sexual generation almost unconsciously begins; but to its yet more primitive manifestations in plant life. In the first three chapters I traced, as far as I was able, the evolution of sex in different branches of non-human life. Many large facts surprised me in following this line of thought by their bearing on the wh
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