The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2/1 competition by women in industrial markets, the neces- sity of careful and exact preparation for the work in hand has to a certain extent received recognition. The world has always recognized this in regard to men, who unconsciously and as a matter of course follow the idea in their training for active life. From the highest to the lowest, they expect to obtain a logical preparation for a certain work before entering upon its duties; and so radical is this necessity supposed to be that the man who disregards it would in many cases suffer both legal and social penalties. The en- gineer who tried to run a locomotive without a proper training and knowledge, the physician who undertook the treatment of disease, the dressmaker who risked the value of the customer’s materials, the architect who dared to build structures that might endanger other people’s lives and money,—these, or any other workers, who assume responsibilities for which they are not fitted, have been and are severely punished for their lack of preparation and the recklessness of their undertakings. Moreover, in proportion to the importance of the interests at stake have the punish- ments— both legal and social — been set. It accords with conceptions of justice that responsibilities should not be undertaken without good reason for believing that there is a sufficient basis of capability present upon which to base the prospect of approximately fair success.