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Dorothea Lynde Dix

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1845. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... conversation. We too often judge convictf We promise, through all reformed prison even under the most favorable modes of It is not easy to correct a trivial, inconver time indulged; shall a whole life of Wj amended by a few years of imprisonment. rightly the young plants; then, as they grow to maturity, uxv will not exhibit deformity, and yield unwholesome fruits. While we are unsparingly severe against sin, we must associate mercy and charity with our judgment of the sinner. The present has been called the age of daring enterprise and bold experiment; this is true, not less in the moral and intellectual, than in the mechanical movements of the world. The long-forgotten theories of past ages, with buried inventions, are revived, modified, applied, and sometimes perfected. It is not wonderful, that, amidst this stirring life, this amazing rush of events, and this business-tossed phase of society, much that is chimerical and unsound, should challenge attention, and engage votaries. Agitated waters throw upon their surface sparkling bubbles, and turbid froth; but the former, in breaking, quickly disappear; and the latter, passing away, bears off impurities, leaving the deep waters wholesome and purified. The restlessness and excitability of our people must find some escape valve; it is therefore well that the thousand projects and theories of the day should have their experimental life; for experience is a sound and wholesome teacher; and the votaries of plans and systems, which have been tested, whether religious, social, or civil, come quietly to relinquish what they have been allowed to prove useless, when, if opposed, they would cling to error, with all the tenacity of self-will, and the obstinacy of weak-mindedness. Truth, we know, rests on a basis to...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States. To get started finding Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 44

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1459062841

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1845. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... conversation. We too often judge convictf We promise, through all reformed prison even under the most favorable modes of It is not easy to correct a trivial, inconver time indulged; shall a whole life of Wj amended by a few years of imprisonment. rightly the young plants; then, as they grow to maturity, uxv will not exhibit deformity, and yield unwholesome fruits. While we are unsparingly severe against sin, we must associate mercy and charity with our judgment of the sinner. The present has been called the age of daring enterprise and bold experiment; this is true, not less in the moral and intellectual, than in the mechanical movements of the world. The long-forgotten theories of past ages, with buried inventions, are revived, modified, applied, and sometimes perfected. It is not wonderful, that, amidst this stirring life, this amazing rush of events, and this business-tossed phase of society, much that is chimerical and unsound, should challenge attention, and engage votaries. Agitated waters throw upon their surface sparkling bubbles, and turbid froth; but the former, in breaking, quickly disappear; and the latter, passing away, bears off impurities, leaving the deep waters wholesome and purified. The restlessness and excitability of our people must find some escape valve; it is therefore well that the thousand projects and theories of the day should have their experimental life; for experience is a sound and wholesome teacher; and the votaries of plans and systems, which have been tested, whether religious, social, or civil, come quietly to relinquish what they have been allowed to prove useless, when, if opposed, they would cling to error, with all the tenacity of self-will, and the obstinacy of weak-mindedness. Truth, we know, rests on a basis to...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States. To get started finding Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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