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of different fibre from those of factory labor, and do not like them raise up and perpetuate succeeding generations of employees for the same work.
We may fairly conclude, from the foregoing testimony and data from the various channels of industry, —
First, That a sure and swift result must follow to the immature female whenever she engages in an employ requiring mental and physical concentration and celerity.
Second, That the disturbance will be proportionate, in the rapidity of its advance and degree, to the degree of concentration, celerity, and continuity of employ.
Third, That its most active and most baleful effects will be upon the functions peculiar to the sex.
Whatsoever, therefore, in industry, exerts these influences (whose present and prospective and almost unending results we have pointed out), demands the exercise of all ingenuity, wisdom, and care, to secure its alleviation and removal. Certain of the em-