MODERN CIVILISATION.
A DOCTOR'S INDICTMENT.
I CTimee" and "Sydney Sun" Servicee.) . LONDON, June 15. Dr. M. Clayesbawo, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, says: "The teudoucy of modorn civilisation is little more than a toleration of abuses. We let off murderers ia deference to public sentiment, and do not hang women bocauso wo are described an being "civilised.' Wo "treat crimo as a disease, aud deal with it mildly. We take tho most beneficent caro of fools, and endure inconveniences at tho hands of strikers, because our high civilisation suggests not retaliation."
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14996, 17 June 1914, Page 9
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