Another central question is to what extent are Marxism and humanism reconcilable. By the early 1870s Dunedin stood as a reconcilable equivocate of the modern city. Whether the two are reconcilable is unknown. "Two policies, not easily reconcilable, are involved in this case," Reed began his conclusion. It has been stated that these two decisions are not reconcilable. This statement is not reconcilable with her known simplicity of character.