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then man's views of his own nature, his con- 

 ceptions of justice, in short his whole outlook 

 on the world, must be profoundly changed. 

 Yet as regards the more tangible of these 

 physical and mental characteristics there can 

 be little doubt that before many years have 

 passed the laws of their transmission will be 

 expressible in simple formulae. 



The blundering cruelty we call criminal 

 justice will stand forth divested of natural 

 sanction, a relic of the ferocious inventions of 

 the savage. Well may such justice be por- 

 trayed as blind. Who shall say whether it is 

 crime or punishment which has wrought the 

 greater suffering in the world ? We may live 

 to know that to the keen satirical vision of Sam 

 Butler on the pleasant mountains of Erewhon 

 there was revealed a dispensation, not kinder 

 only, but wiser than the terrific code which 

 Moses delivered from the flames of Sinai. 



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