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Child Labour and Child Crimes sss
the eternal artistic type of the generation of
man bowed down from childhood under the
yoke of labour. In one strophe after another
of that finely conceived poem he pictures this
being that does not sorrow, and never hopes,
his destroyed soul for which Plato and the
Pleiades, the sunrise and the rose, all the treas-
ures of mind and nature, are nothing. The
poet asks sovereigns, masters, and governors
how they will restore to this thing a soul, how
they will give it music and dreams. What, he
asks, will become of the people who have made
this being what it is now; when after a thou-
sand years’ silence God’s terrible question is
answered,—What has become of his soul.
Many such employers of labour go to
church, they hear explanations of texts like
these, " Inasmuch as ye did it unto . . . even
the least of these, ... ye did it unto me. All
that ye wish others should do to you, that do to
them." It does not occur to them to think how
Jesus, the most inconsiderate of men, at the
right place, would have characterised their de-
mands to have small children employed in glass
works at ten years of age. It never occurs to
them to ask whether they would like to see their
own children in these factories or others like
them.
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