of other men to live, and develop, and gather to
themselves knowledge of life and the things of life.
It is a simple thing, this Golden Rule, and all that
is required. Political economy and the survival of
the fittest can go hang if they say otherwise. What
is not good enough for you is not good enough for
other men, and there s no more to be said.

There are 300,000 people in London, divided into
families, that live in one-room tenements. Far, far
more live in two and three rooms and are as badly
crowded, regardless of sex, as those that live in one
room. The law demands 400 cubic feet of space
for each person. In army barracks each soldier is
allowed 600 cubic feet. Professor Huxley, at one
time himself a medical officer in East London, al
ways held that each person should have 800 cubic
feet of space, and that it should be well ventilated
with pure air. Yet in London there are 900,000
people living in less than the 400 cubic feet pre
scribed by the law.

Mr. Charles Booth, who engaged in a systematic
work of years in charting and classifying the toiling
city population, estimates that there are 1,800,000
people in London who are poor and very poor.
It is of interest to mark what he terms poor. By
poor he means families which have a total weekly
income of from $4.50 to $5.25. The very poor fall
greatly below this standard.

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