the children knew more about life at 10 years than our urban children
he forgets that well over half were dead children all young, appalling and scandalous conditions which hardly exist any more so strong in our world, which avoided the current explosion of the world population, with many children by woman, necessary formerly to have descendants who survive !!
At that time, one in three women who were going to give birth at the hospital would die at childbirth due to lack of asepsis, discovered by Semmelweiss around 1840, and refused by the doctors of the time !!
Progress confirmed and explained by Pasteur, even if janic has a lot of reproaches against Pasteur !!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignace_Philippe_Semmelweis
he was not as gifted as Pasteur to convince of the fundamental scientific reality that he had discovered and to resist the lobbies in place !!!
Communism, in spite of its faults, was a society of sharing towards the most deprived
is in reality very false, see the dead of communism, and North Korea, with another famine this year, because the ideological utopian -isms dear or hated by janic, but too contrary to real human instinctive nature, end up in horrible disasters, wars, deaths and suffering like famines.
So I invite janic to look at the scientific reality of human nature instead of philosophizing in a vacuum his a prioris !!