Better proof of this could not be found than 

 the fact that the raw data for his book were 

 set up before the calculations were well under 

 way. Goring as a thoroughgoing biometri- 

 cian believed that in many fields of research 

 valid conclusions must rest upon the mathe 

 matical analysis of large masses of data. But 

 in his research each constant was critically 

 weighed against his own broad and intimate 

 personal experience of the individual in 

 stances which constitute the mass. 



I find it difficult to decide just what char 

 acteristic of Goring impressed me most when 

 we were working together at the Biometric 

 Laboratory ten years ago. Sometimes it was 

 the steadfast scientific purpose which had sup 

 ported the years of painstaking detail upon 

 which his great book rests detail scrupulously 

 executed notwithstanding the fact that there 

 was at times little prospect of its ever serving 

 as a basis for constants and generalizations. 

 Sometimes it was the breadth of interests, 

 knowledge and sympathies of one whose work 

 lay in a field seemingly so circumscribed. 

 Sometimes it was the entire freedom from 

 both callousness and sentimentality of a man 

 who had spent a decade, more or less, with 

 the inmates of the British prisons. 



One sentence tells much of the man. One 

 day I asked, &quot; Why is this to be The English 

 Convict instead of The English Criminal f&quot; 

 He replied instantly, &quot; Perhaps some of them 

 are not criminals, only convicts.&quot; 



J. ARTHUR HARRIS 



