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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, 



righteousness is resolved into heredity, structure, and habit; living 

 is a mere puppet show, and the wreck of things impends. If Lom- 



Group 1, No. 1. 



Group 1, No. 2. 



broso is right, modern scientific methods are sure to prove him so, 

 and we shall have at last sound theories; but we shall have no world 



in which they can be used, for 

 the dissolution predicted by Her- 

 bert Spencer will have come. 



Exceptional opportunities for 

 the study of the abnormal classes 

 in the institutions of this country 

 and Europe have given me a per- 

 sonal interest in the question of 

 the criminal type. I have discov- 

 ered that the criminal anthropol- 

 ogists do not choose for compar- 

 ison with the prison population 

 their normal men from the ranks 

 where the criminal classes are re- 

 cruited. Blackwell's Island has 

 110 more peculiar inmates than 

 abound in sections of l^ew York 

 near the East River; the resi- 

 dents of the "Whitechapel district 

 of London may be compared with the inmates of Pentonville, to the 

 distinct credit of the latter; and the man in Hoquette is no worse off 



