But what about killing mind, soul, heart, aspirations and every quality that goes to make up a man?
"Their angels do always behold the face of my Father"; yes, but we compel them to withdraw that gaze, and look contentedly into the face of evil.
I am now pleading for the gifted boys and girls of the underworld, not the weaklings, for of them I speak elsewhere.

But I will say, that while the weaklings are the more hopeless, it is the talented that are the most dangerous.

Let us see to it that their powers have some chance of developing in a right direction.

When by some extraordinary concurrence of circumstances a Council School boy passes on to a university and takes a good degree, it is chronicled all over the world; the school, the teacher, the boy and his parents are all held up for show and admiration.

I declare it makes me ill! Why?
Because I know that in the underworld thousands of men are grubbing, burrowing and grovelling who, as boys, possessed phenomenal abilities, but whose parents were poor, so poor that their gifted children had no chance of developing the talent that was in them.