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cotics, to reduce the number of neglected children, to stimulate new 

 sets of wants which will express themselves in a higher standard of 

 living, and, concomitantly, promote the habits of industry which 

 will enable those wants to be satisfied, thus completing a healthful 

 circle in which labor and abstinence will become reciprocal causes of 

 each other as hereditary characteristics which will promote longevity 

 and enjoyment. In this way the log huts and hovels which now 

 form hot-beds where human maggots are spawned, will disappear 

 In their stead will be erected houses that will admit of separate sleep- 

 ing apartments for the sexes, the mental attributes will gradually 

 develop, aesthetic tastes take the place of debauchery, and a new 

 social equilibrium be established. 



How is this change to be effected ? In the first place, we have 

 seen what a powerful agency is environment in determining the 

 career ; therefore, any child of habitually criminal parents should be 

 withdrawn from the influence of such a home, and the younger the 

 child, after it is weaned, the better the chances of success. In the 

 second place, the family is the fundamental type of social organiza- 

 tion, and, as we found it was necessary to take the family in its 

 successive generations as the only proper basis for a study of our 

 subject, so have we found, in those cases where the established 

 order of society has spontaneously produced amended lives, that 

 the family hearth has formed an essential point of departure.* 

 Accepting this as a lesson and a model, any institution that proposes 

 to deal with the reformation of delinquents must adopt some scheme 

 which shall embody this fundamental relationship, remembering 

 that love of home and pride in it are the most powerful motives in 

 checking vagrancy, and in organizing the environnent that can 

 perpetuate these essential domestic sentiments. 



When the term " industrial training " is used, much more is meant 

 than formal instruction in a trade. It is contemplated that, in a proper- 

 ly ordered scheme of reformation, something like a general training 

 of the faculties must be provided for. Our Reformatories must reform 

 and develop the senses of touch, hearing, sight, smell and taste, so 

 that the mind shall be filled with the knowledge of things, instead 



* See cases 3, 6, 36, 



