Land Without God

11/2/2019

**_A powerful and personalised indictment of church and state-sanctioned abuse in a country once run by the clergy_** >_Is this a holy thing to see,_ >_In a rich and fruitful land,_ >_Babes reduced to misery,_ >_Fed with cold and usurous hand?_ - William Blake; "Holy Thursday"; _Songs of Experienc_e (1794) >_It is impossible to exaggerate the good effect which has been produced in the reduction of juvenile crime by_ [the] _twin system of Reformatory and Industrial Schools. The latter have been particularly successful in Ireland; and the combination of voluntary effort and pri__vate management, with State regulation and partial support - a rather dangerous experiment - has been completely justified by the result._ - Richard Cherry; "Juvenile crime and its prevention" (_