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length overcome them. And so it might be with our punishments, if we 

 would model them on the same type. They are now for the most part 

 barbarous in every sense, in their want of skill and adaptation to high 

 purpose, and in the crime and misery they thus gratuitously produce. 

 We might make them beneficent in every sense, merely by copying the 

 wisdom that is around us; and when this is fully understood, it is not 

 to be imagined but that every lover of his kind will take even an eager 

 interest in bringing about the change. The real difficulty is to influence 

 to the inquiry. 



I must add, that in this condensed statement of the princi 

 ples of his system, Captain Machonochie has made no allusion 

 to a very important part of it the anti-criminal part, if I may 

 so express it. He proposes, as a preventive measure, the 

 establishment of Industrial Schools, to which the children of 

 the poorer classes or vagrants should be encouraged to come 

 and give their cheerful and active labour, by receiving marks 

 exchangeable for a good, substantial, but coarse, meal in the 

 middle of the day, and some other food to carry home at 

 night. The employments to be as much as possible rural and 

 agricultural, and in every case at least laborious, fitting those 

 subjected to them to face hard work in after life. 



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