Whether manufacturing employments are unfavorable or otherwise to moral and religions character; or whether it is merely the larger earnings which artizans receive, enabling them more glaringly to gratify their natural and corrupt inclinations than agricultural laborers, can do; whether the passive ignorance of the country laborer, or the more active and intelligent habits, yet combined with moral darkness, of the manufacturing operative, most retards the diffusion of religious truth, are serious questions for us in this country.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
These quills bleed profusely when disturbed, which, of course, seriously retards the growth and progress of the birds.
"Natural and Artificial Duck Culture"
James Rankin
I only declared that I weed out my classes before real work begins, and that physical disease retards mental growth.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
