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