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THE NEXT GENERATION 



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AGE OF IMPRISONMENT 



Scale, 1000 to the inch. This table shows the total number of criminals for each 

 year who were between the ages of ten and forty-five years. Both prisoners and 

 inmates of reformatory institutions were included. The upright lines indicate the 

 ages. The figures at the bottom, between the lines, indicate the number of persons 

 of the given age; that is, there were 506 who were ten years old, 511 who were 

 eleven years old, etc. 



the body, as it develops in new directions, accommodates its 

 growing to the demands which germ cells place upon it. 



For human beings no period of life is more full of fateful 

 import than the years between fourteen and twenty. When 



