Excerpt from Why There Are Vagrants: A Study Based Upon an Examination of One Hundred Men
No symptom is more grave than when the people prefer the enemies of the law to the defenders of the law, for then society begins decomposition and worms develop.
Adding to these true brigands, assassins and thieves, Mer cier estimated that France had an army of more than brigands and vagabonds.
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