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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
neglect, and what to meet, with special preventives, the specific dangers of definite occupations ? There can be but two ways in which either the general or the detailed ills of this nature can be met. They are, the diffusion of sound intelligence hearing thereon, and the enactment and enforcement of efficient repressing law. The dissemination of intelligence to a degree that shall cause sex to be recognized in labor; a fitness of things in the apportionment of occupations, both as to strength and time ; that shall convince legislators of the necessity of laws, and their enforcement in these directions ; that shall demonstrate to the employer the certainty that every draft he makes upon the vital forces of by and by, must be paid out of his children’s pockets and their lives, — such a dissemination is at once the most powerful and the slowest-growing of influences. Much of it, however, must exist before the second influence — legislation and its execution — can be established. So long as men are prone to consult their own selfish