Education, personality & crime : a practical treatise built up on scientific details, dealing with difficult social problems / by Albert Wilson.

  • Wilson, Albert, 1854-1928.
Date:
1908
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    TO THE THOUGHTFUL The sum of twenty-five years’ busy life—The social canker affects all. ~ THE CHANGES OF TIME : Formerly we were plethoric—Now asthenic —The key to prosperity—Comparison of extremes SOCIAL PRO- BLEMS INVOLVED : Double' consciousness—Abnormal humanity— We are all potential criminals—THE LAWS OF BIOLOGY RULE US : Nature allows no privileged class THE BREAKING POINT : Over- strain : the danger zone—The criminal drawn from every class—Society lowers the moral code—SIN VERSUS CRIME : The neglect of the State—All depends on individual effort—The community—Effect of luxury—The neglect of the poor. After twenty-five years of very busy life in a varied medical practice, it may not be out of place to sum up for the use of the thoughtful the pith of my labours. All through a medical man’s career, if he take fife seriously, he meets mental suffering, in addition to, and often entwined with, physical disease. Nor can a doctor separate himself from the social side of fife, for he sits daily in the confessional. While it is his delight to join in the joys of the few, his sympathies are constantly invoked for the mass of humanity groaning in sorrow and travail. The social canker does not afflict the poor alone, it chooses its victims equally among the rich ; the babe that is born to the wealthy or to the good, may bring sorrow instead of joy. In some cases this is unavoidable, but usually it is preventable. It is therefore my earnest object to address myself to all mothers and fathers, to all young men and maidens, on whose health and integrity the next generation is cast. The mission of the physician is not to correct outward disease alone, but also to observe brain and nerve defects, which too often are the basis of disease and unhappiness, present or yet to come. Some say the world seems off its hinges, but the doubt is if it ever were on, for we are in process of evolution. Times The Changes of Time