Crime -- United States; Criminals -- United States
Essentially, the kindly, helpful, well-timed and placed word, is golden.
Irreproachable suggestion and example are of the very weave of the mosaic
of character.
Unquestionable square dealing serves to file off the ragged edges of
resentment, born of restricted liberty.
Patience of the kind the good God has with us all, is due His derailed
children.
None but the measure naturally suited to the man and his offense, will
carry.
False clemency is crime-breeding; yet, punishment that leaves only the
smart of pain suffered, makes the soul of the recipient of it seethe
against the man, or men, by whom it was applied.
The first duty of the disciplinarian is to make clear the necessity for,
and the righteousness of, the condign measure.
Appeal to reason put in words that flow from the heart, is never totally
lost.
Not all of compulsory discipline is negative, and not all of educative
discipline can be made purely voluntary.
Pain is Nature's mentor and monitor. The moment man essays to eliminate
all of pain, he miscues.
The long arm of discipline should reach at one and the same time for the
serviceable tool, and for precept to keep the gaze of lads fixed on the
stars: and so, keep the balance in their minds established as between the
finite and the infinite.
Reams could be written as to what discipline should do and leave undone,
agreeably here with individual exactions, and there with first regard for
the protection of the mass.
It remains with the disciplinarian neither to cross values, nor to
confound magnitudes. Doing that, he will, if he is wise, examine as
closely as he may the sum of human experience; then rely on plumb plain
horse sense.
As to psycho-analysis, the latest wonder worker: practically the same
thing has been called by several names; but it has its positive uses in
deeper diving for disturbing impulses, and in a more enlightened method of
passing healing suggestion. Pressed to the exclusion of palpable exactions
easily read and met, it can be rendered a nugatory nuisance.
For several decades, advanced criminologists have been delving very close
to the manner in which psycho-analysts delve to-day; indeed, the
difference in the mode of operating as between the two is not sufficient
to demarcate them fundamentally. Both aim at change of habit of thought
and action, primarily through removing obsessions from, and establishing
actual values in, the mind; and secondarily, through so reordering the
entire environment of the subject as to reinforce the primary process.
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