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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: up; for beyond this society cannot go with any certainty, and indeed
can only go this far rather apologetically and provisionally, as doing
the best it can on very uncertain ground.
Should Children Earn their Living?
Now comes the question how far children should be asked to contribute
to the support of the community. In approaching it we must put aside
the considerations that now induce all humane and thoughtful political
students to agitate for the uncompromising abolition of child labor
under our capitalist system. It is not the least of the curses of
that system that it will bequeath to future generations a mass of
legislation to prevent capitalists from "using up nine generations of
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