ABSTRACT
With regard to any given wage, and a minimum wage especially, men of a certain temper might find themselves in the same predicament. They might know such a wage to be the largest that was for themselves possible, and yet, if it failed to provide them with as much as their imaginations demanded, this knowledge, instead of allaying their discontent, might embitter it. The other, which may seem more difficult because it is more vague, may be described as a training of the imagination. Now, to tram the imagination in such a way as to adjust its suggestions to limiting facts of life may seem, at first sight, a much more difficult task than that of training mere judgment by making the facts known. As a part of any possible curriculum, an exposition of these facts would, for most teachers, be difficult, and would therefore have little influence on the tempers and opinions of the taught.
