ABSTRACT
Crime begins with poverty. Poverty begins with want of food. Want of food is the result of neglected cultivation. Without good cultivation man has no bond That connects him with his soil. Without this bond he abandons only too readily his place of birth and his home, Resembling the birds in the air and the animals in the fields. Neither walled cities nor moats nor severe loss Nor cruel punishment Can suppress this vagrant spirit Which is powerfully alive in him. —Ch'ao Tso.
