This deplorable flippancy would overlook the serious fact that
permanent or even prolonged celibacy on the part of large numbers
of young men and young women is a great social evil. The
consequences of that evil we shall observe later on.[1]
[1] In speaking about celibacy we refer wholly to secular and not
at all to religious celibacy.
In the meantime we return to John and Mary.
While John was doing his last year in engineering school, Mary
did a year of technical study in the New York School of
Philanthropy, or in the St. Louis School of Social Economy, or in
the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, or in the Boston
School for Social Workers.
They won't even let you start in "doing good" nowadays without
some training for it. This is wise, considering how much harm
doing good can do.
But how the preparation for life does lengthen itself out!
Mary took a civil service examination and got a job with the
State Bureau of Labor. She finished her first year with the
Bureau at the same time when John finished his first year with
the electrical firm. She had earned $600. He had earned $480.
There were several hundred other apprentices in the shops along
with John.
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