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by punishment, but must be prevented by stopping the crimi- 

 nal breeding; not by making him confess his sins, but by 

 incarcerating him where he cannot commit them in such a 

 manner as makes them a nuisance to his neighbour ; for imper- 

 fect repentance only creates incapability to discern between 

 right and wrong, and that loss of constitution is the plant that 

 grows from the seeds of immorality, and that it is wiser to 

 instruct the young in what is crime and teach them how, 

 when and where to avoid it, than to clothe it with mock- 

 modesty. 



Now I have transgressed from my subject in this manner 

 because I wished to point out to my reader that it is only 

 logical to assume that just as in the past the body and mind 

 have been evolved by the survival of those who were physically 

 the fittest, and by the extinction of those who were physically 

 unfit, so it is reasonable to conclude that in the future no 

 markedly different mode of procedure will be adopted by God in 

 the psychological development of the soul. Hence in the past, 

 as the sinner has often been the fittest to produce bodily 

 superiority, mental virtue has been at a discount, and it has 

 been a higher virtue to punch another person's head than to 

 talk Latin or Greek. 



But we are now nearing the commencement of the Epoch of 

 Charity, which is to evolve our souls. So in the future Wisdom 

 is to be superior to and is to conquer might, by making the 

 social distinctions more marked and giving greater honour and 

 respect to the wise, the successful and wealthy, the just, the 

 honest and the merciful, who are those who are the best and 

 fittest members of the community, and are therefore the ones 

 we should most try to perpetuate, that is to say all those who 

 are useful, careful, industrious and economical, and who try 

 to do all the good and kind acts they can to others. If they 

 have these virtues we must wink at their sins, failures and 

 shortcomings, so long as they are not vulgar, rude, extrava- 

 gant, mean, dishonest or lazy. These three last are greater 

 crimes than murder, or are to be so in the future. Let women 

 kindly remember that in the future the greatest crimes they 

 can be guilty of are infidelity, jealousy, hate and slander. I 

 may. say these are not crimes, but sins in men. I consider 

 vulgarity and rudeness cover immorality, which is often 

 allowed to go unpunished in man that it may act as an antidote 



