Note 201 — CRIMINALITY. (continued 2)
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
“This experiment, which no good family would consent to try for fear of the result, would prove on the one hand, that any child placed in the living conditions of most of our young delinquents would inevitably become vicious and criminal, and on the other that if circumstances easily make a malefactor of a child well brought-up, it is much more difficult to transform a bad character into an honest man.”201