Transactions of the National Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline: Held at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 12-18, 1870

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Enoch Cobb Wines
Weed, Parsons, 1871 - 642 páginas

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Página 37 - Ring out false pride in place and blood. The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Página 438 - Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the least of these My - brethren, ye did it not unto Me.
Página 23 - How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O goldheaper, And your purple shows your path ! But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath.
Página 22 - And well may the children weep before you! They are weary ere they run: They have never seen the sunshine, nor the glory Which is brighter than the sun. They know the grief of man without...
Página 316 - April, 1863, an act of incorporation was secured for the institution, under the title of the " society for the protection of destitute Roman catholic children in the city of New York.
Página 23 - They look up with their pale and sunken faces, And their look is dread to see, For they mind you of their angels in high places, With eyes turned on Deity. "How long," they say, "how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart,— Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper, And your purple shows your path!
Página 71 - As a principle that crowns all, and is essential to all, it is our conviction that no prison system can be perfect, or even successful to the most desirable degree, without some central authority to sit at the helm, guiding, controlling, unifying and vitalizing the whole.
Página 543 - ... mistake in the whole compass of penal discipline, than its studied imposition of degradation as a part of punishment. Such imposition destroys every better impulse and aspiration. It crushes the weak, irritates the strong, and indisposes all to submission and reform. It is trampling where we onght to raise, and is therefore as unchristian in principle as it is unwise in policy. XV. In prison administration, moral forces should be relied upon, with as little admixture of physical force as possible...
Página 552 - There is no greater mistake, in the whole compass of penal discipline, than its studied imposition of degradation as a part of punishment. Such imposition destroys every better impulse and aspiration. I: crushes the weak, irritates the strong, and indisposes all to submission and reform.
Página 424 - ... by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper...

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