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Child Labour and Child Crimes 321
and efficiency of children before their
birth?
To see the hand of Providence in an acci-
dental case of preservation, while the same
Providence is released from all share in natural
occurrences, from all part in the terrible phe-
nomena of society, that fill every second of the
earth’s existence with terror, is a relic of super-
stition to be overcome if man is to be filled with
a sense of obligation to conditions he must
master and mould. Modern man is ever be-
coming more and more his own Providence ; he
has already protected himself against fire by
fire engines and fire insurance; against the sea
by life-saving stations; against smallpox and
cholera, diphtheria and tuberculosis, he has
found other means of defence. The blind be-
lief that death is dependent on God’s will man
is losing by the witness of statistics which de-
clare that duration of life increases with im-
proved sanitary condition; which show that
when disease or summer heat mows down the
children of the poor in dark tenements the rich
man can preserve his own children in his
healthy, light dwelling.
Every man who has his heart in the right
spot does not wait for an angel, but rushes to
save a child from danger. But the supersti-
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