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Here, then, in our midst, modern sentiment allows 

 a type of criminal not only to exist, but also to breed ; 

 and this type is one so devoid of all sense of civic 

 responsibility and so destitute of the rudiments of 

 social instinct, that the individuals which constitute 

 it are deliberately prepared to ruthlessly and indis- 

 criminately murder all who shall endeavour to frus- 

 trate their criminal desires ; and even children are 

 not excluded. 



Do not let us delude ourselves by believing that 

 only Russian Anarchists can perpetrate these deeds. 

 This type of criminal is a mutation common to all 

 nations and to all races of mankind. They are not 

 the product of any social conditions any more than 

 the short-legged and long-bodied ram which gave rise 

 to the Ancon race of sheep was the product of special 

 farm conditions. They are germinal mutations, and 

 as such will breed true to their mutant character. 



The fourth event occurred on Monday, the 11th 

 of January, 1909, at half -past seven o'clock in the 

 morning. The Democracy of France has been per- 

 meated, in common with other Western European 

 nations, with the spirit of sentimental regard for 

 all types of civic unfitness which we have been con- 

 sidering. ■ And France has been paying the penalty. 

 For, encouraged by the knowledge that this morbid 

 sentiment would protect murderers from the guillo- 

 tine, and would only send them to expiate their 

 crimes beneath the genial climes and the cocoanut 

 trees of French Guiana, with a profusion of tobacco to 

 smoke and of abundant leisure, a gang of desperadoes 



