Reformatories for drunkards / by T.W. Belcher.

  • Thomas Waugh Belcher
Date:
[1862]
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Credit: Reformatories for drunkards / by T.W. Belcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the only food capable of assimilation), on the i)rinciple of St. Paul, who would neither eat meat nor drink wine while the world lasteil if it made his \veak brother to offend. Reformatories for young criminaLs are the heralds of a change in our criminal juris- ])riidence from the old system of an eye for an eye, to the Christian one of love to our neighbom-. Let us hope tliat reformatories for drunkards will inaugurate a new era in our natiomd law-giving, and so keep jiace with the rapid progress of Psychological Science. See Dr. Henry Kennedy’s paper, The Influence of Food on the Intellect, read before the Social Science Congress, 1861; also Dr. Todd’s 16th Clinical Lecture, 1861.