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not having learned anything of value or that can help 

 them to make even a meager living in the world. They 

 are then turned out inevitably dependent upon others. 

 A few have relatives who take care of them, see that 

 they learn to do something which perhaps will help in 

 their support, and then these relatives supplement 

 this with enough to insure them a living. 



A great majority, however, having no such interested 

 or capable relatives, become at once a direct burden 

 upon society. These divide according to temperament 

 into two groups. Those who are phlegmatic, sluggish, 

 indolent, simply lie down and would starve to death, if 

 some one did not help them. When they come to the 

 attention of our charitable organizations, they are 

 picked up and sent to the almshouse, if they cannot be 

 made to work. The other type is of the nervous, ex- 

 citable, irritable kind who try to make a living, and not 

 being able to do it by a fair day's work and honest 

 wages, attempt to succeed through dishonest methods. 

 "Fraud is the force of weak natures." These become 

 the criminal type. The kind of criminality into which 

 they fall seems to depend largely upon their environ- 

 ment. If they are associated with vicious but intelli- 

 gent people, they become the dupes for carrying out 

 any of the hazardous schemes that their more intelli- 



