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A Book of Remarkable Criminals (Hardcover)
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A Book of Remarkable Criminals (Hardcover)
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Convicts represent those wrong-doers who have taken to a particular
form of wrong-doing punishable by law. Of the larger army of bad
men they represent a minority, who have been found out in a
peculiarly unsatisfactory kind of misconduct. There are many men,
some lying, unscrupulous, dishonest, others cruel, selfish,
vicious, who go through life without ever doing anything that
brings them within the scope of the criminal code, for whose
offences the laws of society provide no punishment We must be
content to study in the microcosm of ordinary crime those
instincts, selfish, greedy, brutal which, exploited often by bad
men, have wrought such havoc to the happiness of mankind. It is not
too much to say that in every man there dwell the seeds of crime;
whether they grow or are stifled in their growth by the good that
is in us is a chance mysteriously determined. As children of nature
we must not be surprised if our instincts are not all that they
should be. From the Introduction of this book, originally published
in 1918.
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