PURPLE PATCH: Whither our children —Friedrich Engels
The great mortality among children of the working class, and especially
among those of the factory operatives, is proof enough of the
unwholesome conditions under which they pass their first years. These
influences are at work, of course, among the children who survive, but
not quite so powerfully as upon those who succumb. The result in the
most favourable case is a tendency to disease, or some check in
development, and consequent les...
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