Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
behaviour, and the like. These are merely temporary measures, and succeed on account of the fear which they excite for the time being.
Now, if we can agree as to the cause or causes which lead a certain number of hitherto honest men to turn criminals, we can lay our hand at once on the means of reclaiming them back to society and moral life. Analysis will show that the principle of morality is here also at the bottom of the trouble, for no one imbued with good moral ideas is likely to take to a dishonest mode of living. Hence, the process of reclamation must embrace moral education to be of any effect. It is, thus, perfectly clear that no system is worthy to be called an administration, in the true sense of the word, in which either moral education is conspicuous by its absence, or is of a nature which turns honest men into criminals; and it is equally clear that in all good administrations provision must be made for imparting wholesome ideas on morality to convicts. Mere imparting of knowledge whereby they might earn a few pence per day, is of no avail. The prospect of a few 'coppers' at the end of a whole day's hard work is so utterly devoid of attraction that, unless the will be strongly imbued with the principle of honesty, the earliest chance of securing a moderately small fortune, without labour, would suffice to turn the scale in favour of dishonesty. Fear of punishment is too feeble a check under the circumstances, for all criminals know that punishment follows detection, but none where there is no trace left, and they, consequently, spend their energies in maturing their plans, so as to reduce the chances of detention to the harast nnocihiliter