Social Pathology, Social & Public Welfare
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Martin GuerreMartin Guerre - Celebrated CrimesWe are sometimes astonished at the striking resemblance existing between two persons who are absolute strangers to each other, but in fact it is the opposite which ought to surprise us. Indeed, why should we not rather admire a Creative...
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Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)For nearly one hundred years this curious problem has exercised the imagination of writers of fictionand of drama, and the patience of the learned in history. No subject is more obscure and elusive, and none more attractive to...
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Joan of NaplesJoan of Naples - Celebrated CrimesIn the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the...
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La ConstantinLa Constantin - Celebrated CrimesBefore beginning our story, we must warn the reader that it will not be worth his while to make researches among contemporary or other records as to the personage whose name it bears. For in truth neither Marie Leroux, widow...
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DeruesDerues - Celebrated CrimesOne September afternoon in 1751, towards half-past five, about a score of small boys, chattering, pushing, and tumbling over one another like a covey of partridges, issued from one of the religious schools of Chartres. The joy of the little troop...
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NisidaNisida - Celebrated CrimesIf our readers, tempted by the Italian proverb about seeing Naples and then dying, were to ask us what is the most favourable moment for visiting the enchanted city, we should advise them to land at the mole, or at Mergellina,...
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Urbain GrandierUrbain Grandier - Celebrated CrimesOn Sunday, the 26th of November, 1631, there was great excitement in the little town of Loudun, especially in the narrow streets which led to the church of Saint-Pierre in the marketplace, from the gate of which the town was...
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Karl Ludwig SandKarl Ludwig Sand - Celebrated CrimesOn the 22nd of March, 1819, about nine oclock in the morning, a young man, some twenty-three or twenty-four years old, wearing the dress of a German student, which consists of a short frock-coat with silk braiding, tight trousers,...
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Mary StuartMary Stuart - Celebrated CrimesSome royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the name Henry. Henry I was poisoned, Henry II was killed in a tournament, Henry III and Henry IV were assassinated. As to Henry V, for whom the past...
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Massacres of the South (1551-1815)Massacres of the South (1551-1815) - Celebrated CrimesIt is possible that our reader, whose recollections may perhaps go back as far as the Restoration, will be surprised at the size of the frame required for the picture we are about to bring before him,...
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CenciCenci - Celebrated CrimesShould you ever go to Rome and visit the villa Pamphili, no doubt, after having sought under its tall pines and along its canals the shade and freshness so rare in the capital of the Christian world, you will descend towards...
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The BorgiasThe Borgias - Celebrated CrimesThe first of these three men, sitting at the foot of the bed, and half hidden, that he might conceal his tears, in the gold-brocaded curtains, was Ermolao Barbaro, author of the treatise 'On Celibacy', and of 'Studies in Pliny':...
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The Story of My LifeThe Story of My Life - With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy This book is in three parts. The first two, Miss...
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The People of the AbyssThe People of the Abyss The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was...
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Sanitary and Social Lectures and EssaysSanitary and Social Lectures and EssaysI have been asked to speak a few words to you on a ladys work in a country parish. I shall confine myself rather to principles than to details; and the first principle which I would impress on you...
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A Book of ScoundrelsA Book of Scoundrels There are other manifestations of greatness than to relieve suffering or to wreck an empire. Julius Csar and John Howard are not the only heroes who have smiled upon the world. In the supreme adaptation of means to an end...
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The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove...
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London's UnderworldLondon's Underworld I am hopeful that some of the experiences given in the following chapters may throw a little light upon some curious but very serious social problems. Corporate humanity always has had, and always will have, serious problems to consider. The more civilised...
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Twenty Years at Hull House with Autobiographical NotesTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesEvery preface is, I imagine, written after the book has been completed and now that I have finished this volume I will state several difficulties which may put the reader upon his guard unless he too postpones...
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Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsOF all disciplines necessary to the criminal justice in addition to the knowledge of law, the most important are those derived from psychology. For such sciences teach him to know the type of man it is...
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