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and for precocious sexual excitability which are both of them such 

 obstacles. 



14. These two features react on each other as cause and effect, 

 stimulate crime and induce pauperism. 



15. The foundation of their education should be sexual training 

 from early childhood. 



16. This involves, ist, Separation from contaminating example 

 to control the moral environment : 2d, Industrial training with 

 culture of the aesthetic tastes. 



17. Separation from parents should be secured by placing the 

 children to be so trained in good families or in institutions that are 

 conducted on the family system. 



1 8. The culture and industrial training are best secured by 

 "Kindergarten education." 



Institutional life, which helps to break down the self-reliance of 

 inmates, must be superseded by dispersion into good families. I 

 now have in mind an extensive employer of labor, located near the 

 original settlement of the "Jukes," and who employs several members 

 of it. His rule is to treat them with firmness and unvaryingly 

 scrupulous fairness. He never swerves from what he says, never 

 evades a promise made. This establishes over them an empire that 

 makes them trust him, and when they get into difficulties, they come 

 to him for advice. He acts as their banker, encourages them to 

 save, and in the case of boys from 13 to 15, who have formed ac- 

 quaintance of licentious women, he interposes his authority and 

 checks their career of licentiousness by establishing a bond of 

 mutual good faith between himself and the offender, the latter prom- 

 ising to discontinue his courses if his former conduct is not reported 

 to his parents. In this way an ascendency is gained that tends to 

 check many an incipient crime ; but he never lets his relations with 

 them fall into the weakness of patronage. He is school trustee, and 

 where widows depend upon their boys for support, he arranges that 

 they shall work for him, and go to school alternate weeks. He has 

 not taken up this work as a "mission," but strictly as a business 

 man, who, finding himself placed where he must employ the rude 

 laborers of his locality, deals with them on the sound and healthy 



