MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN.
TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir,—One cannot but earnestly hoye that tho ideas expressed by M.D., in your issue of 4th inst., on tho treatment of tho criminal may soon find fruition in practice. _ Surely it would not be a had way of judging the cultural standard of any community by tho way it treats its weaker members? ' That community alone can glory in a lofty standard wherein "the woak aro as strong as the strong." Because a member .is morally weak, shall we make him worse bv sending him to prison? Would he, then, not he justified in "I- indeed did a wrong to the community, but it has done a greater wrong to me." Not so should we boast of treating the physically or intellectually weak. No: let him rat-hex* bo able always to say, "I indeed did wrong to the community, but tho community spared neither trouble nor expense to make me better." In a very real sense, 'there is more joy in "heaven over one sinner that repents, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance."—l am, etc. N. M. BELL.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16986, 8 November 1920, Page 8
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193MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16986, 8 November 1920, Page 8
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