You can no more make a first-class dyer or a first-class machinist in one generation than you can in one generation make a Cossack horseman or a Tartar herdsman.

Artisans are born, not made." Our incompetents may plead that they were not born competent.

It does not readily appear what we are going to do about this working of heredity against labor, except as by the slow and gradual improvement of mankind these low strata of existences are lifted up to a higher plane.
Meanwhile we must blame less harshly and work a little more earnestly to better the human stock.
The environment of labor handicaps still further this organic deficiency.

In most of our great cities the homes of the workingmen are shockingly unwholesome; unsunned, badly drained, overcrowded.

The tenements of New York are enough alone to take the life out of labor.