That
is to say, he did not have to work all his waking moments in order to
get enough to eat. The child of the caveman (and this is true of the
children of all savage peoples) had a childhood, and by that is meant
a happy childhood of play and development.
And now, how fares modern man? Consider the United States, the most
prosperous and most enlightened country of the world. In the United
States there are 10,000,000 people living in poverty. By poverty is
meant that condition in life in which, through lack of food and
adequate shelter, the mere standard of working efficiency cannot be
maintained. In the United States there are 10,000,000 people who
have not enough to eat. In the United States, because they have not
enough to eat, there are 10,000,000 people who cannot keep the
ordinary 1 measure of strength in their bodies. This means that
these 10,000,000 people are perishing, are dying, body and soul,
slowly, because they have not enough to eat. All over this broad,
prosperous, enlightened land, are men, women, and children who are
living miserably.
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