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The Man-Made World: Or, Our Androcentric Culture is a 1911 nonfiction work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the text, the author emphasizes the importance of cultivating individuals rather than comparing them: ________
Which quotation from The Man-Made World: Or, Our Androcentric Culture most effectively illustrates the claim?
"That every child on earth shall have right conditions to make the best growth possible to it; that every citizen, from birth to death, shall have a chance to learn all he or she can [absorb], to develop every power that is in them."
A
"We do not sadly measure the cabbage-stalk by the corn-stalk, and praise the corn for getting ahead of the cabbage—nor incite the cabbage to [imitate] the corn. We nourish both, to its best growth—and are the richer."
B
"We have but to learn the real elements in humanity; its true powers and natural characteristics."
C
"We are now to consider the growth of the family in humanity."
D