Judge, 1916-07-15 · page 27 of 28
Judge — July 15, 1916 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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This page combines satire with advertising for a book series. The headline references Millet's famous painting of rural poverty, using it as a cautionary image: don't remain an ignorant laborer your whole life. The satirical message targets working-class men, urging them to pursue scientific self-education rather than accept manual labor as their lot. It appeals to Progressive-era faith in science and self-improvement, name-checking Darwin, Spencer, and Huxley—evolutionary theorists whose work had become cultural touchstones for modernity and progress. The advertisement sells a seven-volume set of "The Library of the World's Greatest Scientists" at reduced price, positioning scientific literacy as the path to social mobility and success. One volume on Prof. Lombroso's criminology is highlighted, showing the set's range. The tone assumes readers are working-class men capable of transformation through reading—a characteristic Progressive belief that education and science could overcome class barriers and create a more rational society.
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Don’t Be a Man With a Hoe A LITTLE HIRED MAN—“BROTHER TO THE OX’’—ALL YOUR LIFE! Stop grubbing with your litle hoe long enough to look around upon the great world about you. In this land of equal opportunity, prove your right to stand on an equality with the highest by choosing noz the only path that will lead you to real success and that broad outlook on life without which the material rewards of success are mere dross—start today to cultivate your brain by scientific reading, by study, by daily association with great scientific minds ‘This isa s age—busi agriculture, war, are all conducted along scientific lines— by the succes In proporti s his brain is cultivated just so far is man removed from the ox and the ass. In this, the most portentous period in the World's history, needs its best brains. Don’t be a “slackei a con: ; be a volunteer jier—a leader in the great army: of modem p\ : Lay up for yourself an intellectual as age and the time of adversity which neither moth nor rust can corrupt, nor thieves break in a i Are you still thinking in terms of the Mid as of ignorance and supersti- tion were dispelled over fifty years ago through the efforts of Darwin and his fellow: scientists the stories of whose wonderful discoveries are told in The Library of the World’s Greatest Scientists DARWIN—SPENCER—HUXLEY—TYNDALL—LOMBROSO Books That Agitated Society | Prof. Lombroso’s Book on Criminology with a Revolutionary Ferment | __\s an illustration of the wide scope of this set, What ch there is the volume on ‘The Female Offender, by The rit at I life from every ante. | Prof, Lombroso, No more startling revelations A Handsome New Edition at Less Than | rage you st rublem= They will wen yeut | can be found anywhere than those contained in Half Price -ON IMMEDIATE ORDERS atio $ “ j the picture he draws of one aspect of the under- world in this book. ‘The Social Evil is as old as creation. We find references to it in the records of but often. and each | the earliest civilizations. ‘The descendants of and discover we | Jezebel and Me: a are to be found in every stratum of society, ‘The lair of “The Searlet Wo- Pas , , nan” is located in almost every community, No , finished with gilt A movers rly there was chaos | study of Soci refore is complete that docs : uted a revelation of | not take into account her malign influence, and the boo hich t combat that influence. Lombroso’s work made an epoch in crimit y e which | cP BiH blebs 4) > of the wide s nd systematic character white paper | 3" i | Jo yor oust righ Titles of These Wonderful Volumes in) attach couron Axo ‘$1.00 TO YOUR LETTERHEAD | Volt. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES | SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, ETC. Brunswick Subscription Co., 419 Brunswick Bidg.. New York City BeThinves pamwit sccnling the eek ana Vel. 1, THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. . i THR SANE oP ONEEME ecincs, ere e were alte to. make c VoL, Exenession oF THE SESORERE BaMet m8 Cate ott ae eo ees Exoneation GEMSTONE, I GMEN | toot fs one a 3 ; von ANE RAE SE Tie ERNE OTERO women, TRE SEMI AL vie 5 HS Skcsan vomancso oO REE i Mone By THOMAS H. HUXLEY . sociat stAHite BR ghkbeR Rt wecar seencen . FRaGmenrs oF sciene Se TEER saan (197 pr SOS TENORLE THEREFORE SEND COUPON TODAY | Occupation (ULLUSTRATED) _ comicbooks.com