...(producing from a hundred and twenty to three hundred hanks to the pound), they were subjected to this labor in a temperature usually exceeding seventyfive degrees...stories haunted my dreams. In some large factories from one fourth to one fifth of the children were either cripples or otherwise deformed, or permanently...

...did not scruple to employ children of both sexes from the age of eight. . . . Most of the overseers carried stout leather thongs, and we frequently saw even the youngest children severely beaten." This as recently as 1815 1 Mr. Holyoake himself remarks that, in his youth, he never heard one word...

...(producing from a hundred and twenty to three hundred hanks to the pound), they were subjected to this labor in a temperature usually exceeding seventyfive degrees...stories haunted my dreams. In some large factories from one fourth to one fifth of the children were either cripples or otherwise deformed, or permanently...