A Moral Imbecile or a Bad Boy: Which?
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badness. That alternative has been present even though the teacher was entirely unaware of it, possibly because he belonged to that dogmatic class who insist that all this talk about degeneracy, moral imbecility, hereditary taints, and abnormalities is merely another fad, and that what most bad boys need is a frequent application of the classical English birch rod translated into an American hickory gad wielded by a pedagogical or paternal
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