English Local Government Volume 6 by Sidney Webb
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Author: Sidney Webb
Page Count: 126 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230411194
File Name: English.Local.Government.Volume.6.pdf
Download Link: English Local Government Volume 6
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... preface By Bernard Shaw the spirit in which to read this book. Imprisonment as it exists to-day, and as it is described hereafter in these two volumes: English Prisons under Local Government and English Prisons To-day, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims; for no single criminal can be as powerful for evil, or as unrestrained in its exercise, as an organized nation. Therefore, if any person is addressing himself to the perusal of these dreadful books in the spirit of a philanthropist bent on reforming a necessary and beneficent public institution, I beg him to put it down and go about some other business. It is just such reformers who have in the past made the neglect, oppression, corruption, and physical torture of the old common gaol the pretext for transforming it into that diabolical den of torment, mischief, and damnation, the modern model prison. If, on the contrary, the reader comes to the books as a repentant sinner, let him read on. the obstacle of vindictiveness. The difficulty in finding repentant sinners when this crime is in question has two roots. The first is that we are all brought up to believe that we may inflict injuries on anyone against whom we can make out a case of moral inferiority. We have this thrashed into us in our childhood by the infliction on ourselves of such injuries by our parents and teachers, or indeed by any elder who happens to be in charge of us. The second is that we are all brought up to believe, not now that the king can do no wrong, because kings have been unable to keep up that pretence, but that society can do no wrong. Now not only does society commit more fr
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