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indirect way, with the natives of this Western Coast,, 

 but with an inherently vicious class which has been 

 thrust into their midst. This class has been thus 

 thrust upon them by the stimulus of that peculiar 

 sentiment which I considered in my original article, 

 and which characterises the doings of modern civilisa- 

 tions generally. Glasgow has, like other cities,, 

 bred and reared a race of useless people, civic cripples, 

 hooligans, criminals, and women powerless to protect 

 themselves. Faced with the pressing problem as 

 to what is to be done with this class of defective 

 citizen, the Glasgow Parish Council cast their 

 municipal eyes upon the beautiful and verdant 

 Western Coast of Scotland and upon its honest 

 and simple inhabitants. ''Here," in effect, they said, 

 "is a good environment and a trusty people. In the 

 sea breezes of this beautiful and romantic coast we 

 have conditions of health and scenic displays that 

 will arouse the romance and imagination of our 

 shipwrecked horde of civic outcasts. Among the 

 native population. God-fearing and honest, we may 

 find a human environment which will appeal to the 

 better nature of our morally and mentally crippled 

 citizens, which will induce them to become better 

 and nobler men and women, and will rear them to 

 service of work and to manly independence. We 

 cannot," they proceeded to argue, "hope to do much 

 with the parents. We may as well recognise the 

 fact that they are hopeless and irreclaimable. But 

 with the children it is otherwise ; they are plastic 

 to our moulding and responsive to our better influences. 



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