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be abolished ; for, notwithstanding the numerous assertions to the con- 

 trary, the author has yet to see the man who practiced dishonesty from 

 a sheer love of iniquity. 



The well-to-do may lament the immorality of the class below them ; 

 but if gentility would look less leniently upon itself, probably the exhibi- 

 tion of crime might be viewed as no more than the apex of a pyramid 

 whose base is deeply planted in the frailties which are common to gen- 

 eral society. 



