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From the reformer's point of view more lasting good can be achieved by impressing on the normal man the advantage of obeying the law than by spending a like amount of energy in the attempt to teach a lunatic the difference between right and wrong. One can never hope that a mental defective will do constructive work for society or even that he will become independent of charitable aid. Practically therefore the sane criminal should at least be on a parity with the lunatic wrongdoer in the eyes of the law. Misplaced mercy to the hopelessly insane does...
...least two years can be squeezed out of the present (educational) procedure and still have a normal youth of nineteen better trained and more genuinely educated than is his brother today at twenty...
Hodge blunders through his part, in a manner so highly normal and idiotic that one comes to forget sooner or later that he is acting at all. Truth to tell, it is as if you and I were up there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
...symptoms of seasickness are too well known to merit detailed description. Suffice it to list the following, which may come on in an ordinary case, from six to thirty-six hours after departure, normal weather conditions prevailing: discomfort in the epigastric region, varying with the rise and fall of the ship; anorexia; salivation, with frequent swallowing movements; headache, dizziness; weakness, progressing to faintness; cold perspiration of the skin, and pallor of the face, with the oft-described greenish hue. The facial expression, which is one of great dejection and apathy, faithfully records the internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...