...youth to invigorate the system and fit our species for employment and for the duties of manhood. (3) The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted...rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to nature, subsist by the oppression...

...employed in some of the Mills, which tends to diminish future expectations, as to the general sum of lives and industry, by impairing the strength, and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation; at the same time in too many instances it gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance, and profligacy...

...afflicting accidents by the machinery."75 As early as the mid-179os, in fact, there was grave concern for "the untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day," among the women and especially the children in the spinning factories, "these human beings [who] are...

...to which they belong. 2. The large factories are generally injurious to the constitution of those 3. The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted...encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring....

...invigorate the system, and to fit our species for the employments and for the duties of manhood. 3. The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted...diminish future expectations as to the general sum of Ufe and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation,...

...untimely labor of the night and the protracted labor of the day, with respect to children, not only tend to diminish future expectations as to the general...encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring....

...cotton factories established near and round the towns, where in Dr Percival's opinion, conditions tended 'to diminish future expectations as to the general...destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation' and by giving 'encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary...

...cotton factories established near and round the towns, where in Dr Percival's opinion, conditions tended 'to diminish future expectations as to the general...destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation' and by giving 'encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary...