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London’s Underworld

CHAPTER XIII
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The police will accompany them, and will see them disbanded when the evening closes in.

The boxes will be emptied, the contents tabulated, and a pro rata division will be made, after which the processionists will go home and remain unemployed till the next weekly parade comes round.
Unemployable! yes, but so much the greater pity; and so much more difficult the problem, for they represent a very large class, and it is to be feared a growing class of the manhood of London's underworld.
We cannot blame them for their physical inferiority, nor for their lack of ability and grit.

To expect them to exhibit great qualities would be absurd.

They are what they are, and a wise country would ponder the causes that lead to such decadent manhood.

During my prison lectures I have been frequently struck with the mean size and appearance of the prisoners under twenty-two years of age, who are so numerous in our London prisons.


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