Excerpt from The Design and Advantages of the House of RefugeIt is to be looked upon as a school for reformation, not a place of punishment. An Asylum for poverty and helplessness and ignorance, not a prison for malefactors. Its directors are the friends and instructors of its inmates.' Instead of being outcasts from society, with scarcely a possibility of return, they are with drawn only for a season, in the trust that by a course of right but not cruel or ignominious discipline, they may be prepared to partake of its enjoyments and even to hope for its rewards. In the mean time the restraint imposed, merely interdicts a fellow ship with the vicious, which could not fail to be disastrous, and substitutes one of a beneficial character.It imposes restraint, for restraint is necessary no less for the good of the subject, than for the security of society.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.