Poverty And Riches; a Study of the Industrial Régime
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The system is doing its best to pick leaders from among those who are in the schools. But in the higher years only a small fraction of the children ever enter. They are kept out by a lack of family income. This is true despite the fact, so frequently reiterated, that the children of all classes of the population are probably about equal in capacity. After his exhaustive examination of the problem of ability among men, Lester F. Ward, in his "Applied Sociology, " states his conclusion that capac...ity is latent everywhere. It is opportunity that is rare, not ability. "The fact that so many do struggle up out of obscurity does not so much show that they possess superiority as that they happen to be less bound down than others by the conventional bonds of society. " 6 At another place Ward thus sum- marizes his findings: "This again indicates the true resources (the unworked mines) that society pos- sesses. Only ten per cent of these resources have been developed. Another ten per cent are some- what developed.
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