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those particular tasks by the men in charge. It is now the dream of 

 some of the men interested in the problem of the care of mental defec- 

 tives, that in the near future we can have large farms or colonies where 

 these people can be kept at work, protected from the complex conditions 

 of the outside world which they are unable to meet. And this will make 

 it possible for them not only to take care of themselves, but to relieve 

 society of the burden placed upon it by the crimes and other social evils 

 to which this class is naturally addicted. 



