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equally evident, that large numbers of the very class by whom, and toward whom, this care should be exercised, are engaged in employments whose demands and conditions are such as to render them the reverse of favorable circumstances for the true balance of health in this regard. Until this faculty shall have been established and confirmed in its completeness, there can be no moral—there should be no legal — right of a parent or guardian to permit, or of an employer to secure, the labor of the immature frame in occupations that in themselves or their surroundings are inimical to the due development of the individual. If employed, it should be in pursuits free from tendencies to the repression of the sexual principle and the almost purely animal growth which the early years of life seem intended to expressly accomplish. Labors that demand full measures of strength and activity, physical or mental, must properly seek them in those who have passed this climacteric. Dr. Barnes, in his excellent