The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



There's 



a nvidonv 



in sleepy 



Chester 



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therefore no factor in the degeneration of 

 the race. Such degradation is at once cause, 

 effect and symptom, — a sign of racial inad- 

 equacy, a cause of further enfeeblement and 

 an effect of unjust and injurious social, po- 

 litical, and industrial conditions in the past. 

 But with better training the child of the 

 slums rises to normal conditions. Given a 

 fair chance in his youth, and he will show 

 his normal British heritage. 



But the problem before us is not the prob- 

 lem of the slums. What mark has been left 

 on England by her great struggles for free- 

 dom and by the thousand petty struggles to 

 impose on the world the semblance of order 

 called "Pax Britannica," the British peace? 



To one who travels widely through the 

 counties of England some part of the cost 

 is plain. 



There's a widow in sleepy Chester 

 Who mourns for her only son ; 

 There's a grave by the Pabeng River, — 

 A grave which the Burmans shun. 



This is a condition repeated in every vil- 

 lage of England, and its history is recorded 



