American Bad Boys in the Making

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H. Lechner, 1912 - Juvenile delinquency - 241 pages
 

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Page 135 - But the soul is not the body : " and the breath is not the flute ; Both together make the music : either marred and all is mute.
Page 143 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 189 - ... there is an organized society of young men whose sole business in life is to corrupt young girls and turn them over to bawdy houses; where men walking with their wives along the street are openly insulted; where children that have adult diseases are the chief patrons of the hospitals and dispensaries; where it is the rule, rather than the exception, that murder, rape, robbery, and theft go unpunished — in short where the Premium of the most awful forms of Vice is the Profit of the politicians.
Page 143 - In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 109 - Home's not merely roof and room-- It needs something to endear it; Home is where the heart can bloom , Where there's some kind lip to cheer it! What is home with none to meet, None to welcome, none to greet us? Home is sweet- -and only sweet- Where there's one we love to meet us!
Page 138 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Page 241 - We're beaten back in many a fray, Yet ever strength we borrow, And where the vanguard rests to-day, The rear shall camp to-morrow.
Page 140 - Perhaps nothing will so hasten the time when body and mind will be adequately cared for as a diffusion of the belief that the preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. The fact is that all breaches of the laws of health are physical sins.
Page 133 - ... Physiology has taught us that each period of a child's growth has its fixed time, that certain parts of the body have their time of greatest development, and that these are not varied materially except in abnormal children. Thus the muscles grow stronger from the center of the body to the extremity; the heart and lungs have their greatest development during the years of adolescence. Not only should we not interfere with the growth of these organs by overtaxing them during the period of their...

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