Juvenile Depravity (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1849 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. PROMINENT FEATURES IN THE PRESENT CONDITION OF SOCIETY CAUSES OF THE INCREASE OF DRUNKENNESS IN WHAT WAY DRUNKENNESS IS THE CAUSE OF CRIME REMOTE CONSEQUENCES OF DRUNKENNESS CONNEXION BETWEEN DRUNKENNESS AND CRIME BETWEEN A Parent's INTEMPERANCE AND His Child's CRIME--CASES OF TWENTY-THREE JUVENILE OFFENDERS CONNEXION BETWEEN DRUNKENNESS AND FEMALE CRIME, &C. PROSTITUTION SANITARY EVILS IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND, &C. TWO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ANSWERED. We have thus briefly and imperfectly reviewed the great revolution, not effected by arms and bloodshed, external invasion or intestine discord, but brought about through the instrumentality of a mechanical invention, which has transpired within the last half-century--a revolution in the locality of the residences of our gentry, which are gathered more into knots here and there, or drawn together into the great metropolitan focus--a revolution in the employment of the greater part of the workingclass, who from being engaged in agriculture, are now more frequently occupied in manufacture--a revolution in the general relation between the employed and their employers--and a complete revolution in manners and G ideas. From a political, social, and intellectual change, so remarkable and entire as that which we have partially contemplated, it could not be that great moral effects should not result; and these last have been partly good and partly bad. The line of demarcation which separates the class who have morally benefited by the altered condition of society, from those who have sunk more deeply into depravity and intemperance, is the educational boundary which divides the well-instructed from the ignorant. The higher and middle classes in this country have socially been elevated by the improved standard o...