...employed in some of the Mills, which tends to diminish future expectations, as to the general sum of lives and industry, by impairing the strength, and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation; at the same time in too many instances it gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance, and profligacy...

...labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general...encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring....

...with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of Ufe and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying...encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring....

...cotton factories established near and round the towns, where in Dr Percival's opinion, conditions tended 'to diminish future expectations as to the general...destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation' and by giving 'encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary...

...cotton factories established near and round the towns, where in Dr Percival's opinion, conditions tended 'to diminish future expectations as to the general...destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation' and by giving 'encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary...