LAST CENSUS AND ITS BEARING ON CRIME 403 



treatment implies essentially different methods; to the one proper 

 remedial initiatives under wise supervisoral care ; to the latter a simple 

 process of sequestration under practical life detention. 



The latter cuts off at a single blow the fountain of criminal propa- 

 gandism, protects both society and the offender himself, and is the 

 sole remedial dispensation against the infection. If for no other 

 reason than this, tables that present the problem in clear numerical 

 proportion are a great gain from both a theoretical and a practical 

 standpoint, and its omission is at the expense of both. A marshalling of 

 figures is like the marshalling of an army, it contains the potentiali- 

 ties of victory or defeat, though in the absolute these may be de- 

 termined by subtler factors. 



