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Physical Deformity, Calls Forth Our Charity. But The Infinite Misfortune Of Moral Deformity Calls Forth Nothing But Hatred And Vengeance.

It Is Indeed Strange That With All The Knowledge We Have Gained In The Past Hundred Years We Preserve And Practice The Methods Of An Ancient And Barbarous World In Our Dealing With Crime. So Long As This Is Observed And Exercised There Can Be No Change Except To Heap More Cruelties And More Wretchedness Upon Those Who Are The Victims Of Our Foolish System.

Different Strokes For Different Folks.

Every Thought Of Pity Is Like The Balm Of Gilead To Our Souls.

The Lowest Standards Of Ethics Of Which A Right-thinking Man Can Possibly Conceive Is Taught To The Common Soldier Whose Trade Is To Shoot His Fellow Men. In Youth He May Have Learned The Command, 'thou Shalt Not Kill,' But The Ruler Takes The Boy Just As He Enters Manhood And Teaches Him That His Highest Duty Is To Shoot A Bullet Through His Neighbor's Heart - And This, Unmoved By Passion Or Feeling Or Hatred, And Without The Least Regard To Right Or Wrong, But Simply Because His Ruler Gives The Word.