Punishment. Is it not a great deal wiser,     Crimes and vices to prevent, Than to try to cure their evil     By inflicting punishment?   Let us educate the people.     Teach divine, and human law. Then our prisons will be churches___     Human action know no flaw. __Colfax Burgoyne Harman

 

Poems Of Sentiment
Colfax Burgoyne Harman
(Valley Falls, Kansas: Harman Publishing. 1905)
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