Excerpt from Child Employing Industries: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, January 13-16, 1910 Of course there are other arguments - I cannot help regarding them as rather pretexts than arguments-in favor of putting the burden of premature toil on the weak shoulders Of the child. One argument used is that of the self-made man. He went to work, he tells us, when he was IO or II, and it did him no harm that he is aware of on the contrary, it toughened him for the struggle of existence and enabled him to become the successful man he is. He forgets that so far as strength and power Of endurance go he is probably exceptionally favored by nature and that hundreds Of others would fail where he succeeded. He forgets, also, that so far as other qualities go, his lack of early education has probably injured him, and that, after all, successful as he may be in some respects, he may be quite a pitiable failure in other respects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.