MAKING VIRTUE A HABIT.
Speaking at an Englisb education conference on "Juvenile Delinquency, '' Mr. J. F. Henderson, assistant-secretary of the Home Of fice and bead of tbe Cbildren's Brancb there, said that those who in recent months had been talking gliby of "waves '' of juvenile crime or delinquency had been doing a disservice to the public. There was no such "wave," At most there might be a few drops, which made hardiy a ripple on the ocean. Dishonesty in one form or another was, Mr. Henderson said, the offence to which boys and girls were most prone. Honesty was not an innate virtue, but was acquired by precept and practice. The transition from the universal acquisitiveness of the baby stage to the stage when without conscious effort the grown-up youth refrained from taking what was not his own covered a period of years, and it must inevitably include failures. As Aristotle observed long ago, "without habit there is no virtue."-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 6
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