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Excerpt from The Origin and Progress of the National and Industrial Schools, in Connection With the Church of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley, Showing Their Effect in Preventing Juvenile Delinquency
To a philanthropist and a Christian there cannot be a more painful sight than is presented to him as he passes through the land, by the appearance of our prisons. That such buildings should be required for the punishment of crime, - that sums almost fabulous in amount should be expended in the erection of these massive edifices, in their maintenance, and in the administration of criminal justice, - is a disgrace to us as a Christian nation; a stigma upon our national character, which every Englishman should labour with heart and hand to ed'ace. That a large number of the leading men of the country are desirous of seeing a reform in this terrible feature of our social system, and are endeavouring with all their energy to effect it, is a consoling re¿ection; and as we have essayed in a former publication1 to direct attention to what we believe is the best means of preventing crime, we purpose in this to show, that in one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of those establishments which we are anxious to see general in the country, the use of the means recommended has been attended with the best effect.
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