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ve fatigues of the endocrine system in one or all of its 

 parts, and especially the prevention and enfeeblement of the dis- 

 cs of children which injure them at a period when they are 

 most sensitive to injury, is the task of the endocrine hygienist. 

 Periodic examinations, to check up the balance sheets of the hor- 

 mone factories and to measure the amount of their damage by 

 means of blood analyses, will provide the most valuable method 

 in the campaign to lengthen the productive and enjoying span of 

 life. 



The Treatment of Crime 



Endocrine hygiene will discover no wider or more fruitful area 

 for exploration and control than that of crime. For more than a 

 generation there have been attempts at a criminology, and a new 

 understanding and control of crime. In the United States a 

 concomitant sentimentalism has concocted measures like the 

 honor system which, naturally failing of their purpose, have 

 undermined confidence in the idea of scientific diagnosis and 

 treatment of crime. As someone has noted, to ask a criminal 

 to promise not to misbehave, when discharged from prison, is 

 like asking a typhoid fever patient to promise not to have a 

 temperature above ninety-nine degrees the next morning. For 

 a large proportion of criminals — the percentage has yet to be de- 

 termined, although the most recent police commissioner of 

 Chicago has estimated it at ninety per cent — punishment for a 

 period of time and then letting him go free is like imprisoning a 

 diphtheria carrier for a while and then permitting him to com- 

 mingle with his fellows and spread the germ of diphtheria. 



Of course, the doctrine of responsibility is :ill (angled up with 

 our attitude towards and treatment of crime. Though clear 

 thought makes mandatory the recognition of a universal MM 

 and effect law, practical common sense hag defined free will, 

 or the withholding of consent to a given course of action 

 has been the criterion of responsibility. 



In i the limitation of responsibility will depend upon 



rtion of extraneous factors into the formula of OOQOBDt 



The pragmatic test has been and will be the probability that the 



a of the somatic or psychic condition would have pre- 



ted or will prevent tl nt to the crime. As long as no 



ill be demon own protection 



will i confine the unfortunate individu- 



The f the confinement, its duration, and the uses 



