The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 61: what you’re looking at

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54 The Wreck of the South Pole. “You would not be punished. We seldom are called upon to do that, and when we are, the ceremony is made a very solemn one, indeed.” “But you have judges and courts equal to any I have ever seen in America.” “Yes, but not for the same purpose. Let us follow the illustration of yourself. When you were arrested you would be taken into the court and your record produced by the policeman who had been watching you. From this the judge would decide, not as to your guilt, but as to how far inclined towards crime your intellect had become, and would sentence you accordingly.” “Still I do not see how that would not be punishing me for something I had not done.” “Not at all, Il assure you. If you were shown to be not really bad, you would be committed to reformatory No. I, as it is called. You would not be imprisoned. On the contrary, you would at once be set at liberty and no re- strictions whatever placed upon you. But you would be under the tutelage of the reserve judges of the inner court. They are chosen from the purest men and most powerful minds in the country. In other words, they are the clergy of the land. To them your case would be made known and your record given. Each one would take you under his supervision for an hour a day and would, during that hour, direct the whole power of his mind upon yours to drive from it every evil thought. There would not be a moment of the day when their minds were not working (E(@) Conniclooolks