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One Means Of Preventing Pauperism
To rescue these unfortunate beings and to save the industrious part of the community from the burden of their support, “Reformatories” should be established, to which all women under thirty, when arrested for misdemeanors, or upon the birth of a second illegitimate child, should be committed for very long periods (not as a punishment, but for the same reason that the insane are sent to an asylum), and where they should be subject to such a physical, moral and intellectual training as would re-create them...