Report of ProceedingsAmerican Correctional Association, 1909 Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged. |
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الصفحة 17 - Ah, how skilful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far exceedeth all the rest!
الصفحة 21 - And He said, A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
الصفحة 17 - Under gentle types, my Spring Masks the might of Nature's king, An energy that searches thorough From Chaos to the dawning morrow; Into all our human plight, The soul's pilgrimage and flight; In city or in solitude, Step by step, lifts bad to good, Without halting, without rest, Lifting Better up to Best; Planting seeds of knowledge pure, Through earth to ripen, through heaven endure.
الصفحة 86 - Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), ' that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang came and stole her husband from her ; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked; and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did.
الصفحة 150 - In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
الصفحة 205 - When he has once raised this issue by his plna of not guilty the law says he shall thenceforth be deemed innocent till he is proved to be guilty, and both the common law and the statute give him the benefit of any reasonable doubt arising on the evidence. Now, if, at the...
الصفحة 86 - The parish officers testified the truth of this story; but it seems, there had been a good deal of shop-lifting about Ludgate ; an example was thought necessary; and this woman was hanged for the comfort and satisfaction of shopkeepers in Ludgate Street.
الصفحة 254 - They struck contemporary observers with no surprise, and have received from historians a very scanty measure of attention. They were brought about neither by legislative regulation nor by physical force. Moral causes noiselessly effaced, first the distinction between Norman and Saxon, and then the distinction between master and slave.
الصفحة 85 - For instance, the shoplifting act was to prevent bankers and silversmiths, and other shops, where there are commonly goods of great value, from being robbed ; but it goes so far as to make it death to lift any thing off a counter with intent to steal.
الصفحة 99 - We have two great Hebrew lawgivers — Moses and Christ. The former justified vengeance — an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The latter said : " Overcome evil with good." We hold to the latter doctrine. Our ultimate goal in the salvation of men can never be through force, violence and vengeance. Yet is not that the final result of jails, stripes, iron bars and degradation ? Consistent with the concession therefore — and we must concede it — that the days of force have not passed and the...