For instance, one line of the testimony said “The representations that these effects are so common and universal as to enable some persons invariably to distinguish factory children from other children is, I have no hesitation in saying, an exaggerated and unfaithful picture of their general condition; at the same time, it must be said, that the individual instances in which sums one or other of those effects of severe labor are discernable are rather frequent than rare…” (Sherman 2010).