I know this quote or something like it is in Utopia, but for the life of me I cannot locate it. Can you help?
"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and they punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded but that you first make thieves and then punish them?"
Thanks
2007-03-25 14:33:06 · 3 answers · asked by Robin C 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The narrator is speaking about the problems resulting from unemployment and idleness:
"If you do not find a remedy to these evils it is a vain thing to boast of your severity in punishing theft, which, though it may have the appearance of justice, yet in itself is neither just nor convenient; for if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make thieves and then punish them?"
This is from the Project Gutenberg edition of "Utopia" found at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2130/2130-h/2130-h.htm
Just search on that page for a few of the words and you'll find the exact spot.
2007-03-26 06:19:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi sanswer to the age-old question is that personalities are nurtured (or developed) rather than innate (natural). Nurture not nature.....
2007-03-26 07:10:59 · answer #2 · answered by tracymoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may find it on this page
http://search.aol.com/aolcom/search?&query=thomas%20more%20quotes&invocationType=TB40
2007-03-25 14:42:14 · answer #3 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋