THE PARS0N. It must be confessed that one of the best signs of thetimes is woman's charity for woman. That certainly never existed tothe same extent in any other civilization.

MANDEVILLE. And there is another thing that distinguishes us, or isbeginning to. That is, the notion that you can do something morewith a criminal than punish him; and that society has not done itsduty when it has built a sufficient number of schools for one class,or of decent jails for another.

HERBERT. It will be a long time before we get decent jails.