ued because new ways are constantly coming to light. The logical
end of all these indefinite and uncertain laws is to pass one statute
providing that whoever does wrong shall be imprisoned, _et cetera, et
cetera_. The law never can specify all the ways of doing wrong and many
of the meanest and most annoying things have never been, and from the
nature of things never can be, prohibited by the statutes. No man is a
good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because
he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the
intrinsic make-up.

Civilization is all the while making it harder for men to keep out of
prison. Especially do the weak and ignorant and poor find that
environment is constantly creating more inhibitions as time goes on.
While rules and customs are prohibiting more and more ways of getting
property, the needs growing out of civilization are always increasing.
The simple inexpensive life of the past has given place to a more
complex way of living, which calls for greater expense and harder work.
It has created rivalry and jealousy to get the things that others have,
and has placed men in a mad race with each other which often leads to
jail or death.

Students of biology are constantly noting the difficulty that hereditary
human traits, which have been evolved for simple reactions and plain
living, find in making the necessary adjustments to the extravagant
demands and complicated environment of the present day. This departure
from the old normal and simple environment, due largely to machinery and
commerce, is not only destroying individual lives by the thousands, but
is seriously threatening the whole social fabric.

The creation of new courts, like "Boys' Courts," "Juvenile Courts,"
"Courts of Domestic Relations," "Moral Courts," with their array of
"Social Workers," "Parole Agents," "Watchers," _et cetera,_ shows the
growth of crime and likewise the hopelessness of present methods to deal
effectively with a great social question. Numbers of people in our big
cities are making their living from the abnormal lives of children.
Whether they are doing good or not, or whether their service is
unselfish, as much of it doubtless is, are both quite aside from the
question. The important fact is that the present system brings no
results and that the disease is growing.

Instead of any considerable number of people taking hold of the question
of crime, as physicians have taken