Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - VIII. Child Labour and the Crimes of Children
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
Child Labour and Child Crimes 323
the form of religious edification, or intellectual
enlightenment, but it remains nothing but a
cut flower, stuck in a dust heap.
It is possible, with sufficient certainty, to
show from criminal statistics that degenerate
children are the creation of society itself. By
allowing them to be forced into " the path of
virtue," by punishment, society behaves like a
tyrant, who has put out a man’s eyes and then
beats him because he cannot by himself find
his road.
The categorical imperative for the social
consciousness at the present moment, is an
effective legislation for the protection of child-
ren and women.
Wherever industry is developed, the woman
is taken away from the home, the child from
play and school. In the period of guilds,
women and children worked in the house, and
in the workshop of the husband. But since
the factory system has constantly restricted the
household work of woman, industrial occupa-
tions on the scale of modern capitalism can
satisfy its needs for cheaper work by woman’s
work. This like children’s work has forced
down in many places the pay of adult work-
men. The pay with which a married man can
care for his family by his work is now divided
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
