Lost is our old simplicity of times;

The world abounds with laws,

and teems with crimes

Pennsylvania Gazette,

Feb. 8, 1775

With ready-made opinions one

cannot judge of crime.

Its philosophy is a little more

complicated than people think.

It is acknowledged that

neither convict prisons

nor any system of hard labor

ever cured a criminal.

FYODOR DOSTOIEVSKY

The House of the Dead