Heredity : its relations to human development / correspondence between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody.

  • Thompson, Elizabeth, 1821-1899.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Heredity : its relations to human development / correspondence between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    taken by the hand, led, trained and educated in the principles of virtue, morality and wise self- control, they have been overlooked and forgot- ten by general society, until its attention was arrested by some disturbance of its peace, when the offender was quickly thrust into a felon's cell to stay awhile, come out, commit another offense, and then be thrust back again. Even helpless little children are left to beatings, nakedness and starvation, many of them wan- dering homeless, neglected, outcast, growing up ignorant, diseased, debased criminal; who fill society with their own wretched progeny, violate its order, trample on its laws and burden it with such a sense of insecurity, that we are obliged to maintain standing armies of police- men, armed with hand-cuff, club and revolver, to protect us from the ruffians of our own be- getting. Yet all these ruffians unfolded from innocent little children. Is it their fault, that they were born to a sorrowful inheritance from poor, dis- eased, vicious or criminal parents ? and have been suffered to grow up through ignorance,