CHAPTER IV.
It would be a truism to declare that human nature is about as complicated a piece of machinery as could be found in the human world.
And yet I do not know why it should be considered so.

All things and all men do not run in grooves.

A man to be a criminal need not be hopelessly bad in every other sense.

I have met murderers who did not possess sufficient nerve to kill a rabbit, burglars who would rob a poor man of all his possessions in the world, and yet would not despoil a little child of a halfpenny.

The fact of the matter is we all have our better points, our own innate knowledge of good and evil.