Philistine and genius / by Boris Sidis.

  • Boris Sidis
Date:
1911
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Credit: Philistine and genius / by Boris Sidis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ery and crime, the gift of our modern in- dustrial progress, wealth and prosperity. Professor James and myself were over once on a visit to a charitable institution for mentally defective. With his clear eye for the incongruities and absurdities of life, Professor James remarked to me that idiots and imbeciles were given the comforts, in fact, the luxuries of life, while healthy children, able boys and girls, had to struggle for a livelihood. Children under fourteen work in factories, work at a wage of about twenty-five cents a day, and, according to the labor bureau, the daily wage of the factory children of the South is often as low as fifteen cents and sometimes falls to nine cents. In many of our colleges many a student has to live on the verge of starvation, freeze in a summer overcoat the whole winter and warm his room by burning newspapers in
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