This is egregious folly.
Dr.Chapple's treatise, however, takes things as they are.

He proposes to save society from the multiplication of its Criminals by a remedy of the most radical kind.

When he was good enough to ask me to write a preface for his book I hesitated somewhat.

I read the substance of it in MS.S.and was deeply impressed by it.

But still I am in some doubt.