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moral development can commit a crime. It does not follow that all abnormal persons necessarily commit 7 The Rule of "Not Too Much" crime. There are so-called latent criminals who are prevented by fortunate environment from lapsing into the category of actual criminals. It is just so with the drunkard. He is abnormal, and can never be normal, although a fortunate environ- ment may prevent him from actually getting down into the gutter. Still, as society seeks to eliminate the criminal rather than put itself in such a state as to prevent the criminally disposed from living up to their natural bent, likewise society seeks to eliminate the drunkard rather than itself live under the hospital and prison regimen which is necessary in order to prevent his natural propensity from asserting itself. In other words, we might as reasonably demand all society to live under a reform school government de- vised to prevent the criminally disposed from actually exercising their inclinations, as demand that all society live under the sanitarium regimen required to keep the drunkard from falling into the ways indicated by his natural predisposition. When we are ready to turn human society into a reform school or a prison, then we may rationally consider the adoption of prohibi- tion.

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