Boyology
Abstract
That a good boy is the noblest work of God is an assertion that few will readily challenge. How fascinating is the appeal which a boy untainted by the corruption of his elders unstained by the vices of environment makes on even the most hardened. Some few years ago, three boys boating on the mighty river that washes the grim walls of Sing Sing, met with a dreadful accident in the upsetting of their frail boat, and in view of the twelve hundred inmates of the famous prison lost their lives while helplessly striving to reach the safety of the prison boundary. The prisoners' within frantically beat at the iron bars that prevented their going to the rescue of the children. With levelled guns the guards had to enforce the rigid discipline of the prison and when at last the unequal struggle ended and the mocking waters closed over the lifeless forms of the victims those hardened sons of crime wept tears of genuine sorrow while they muttered curses on the law that forbade their responding to nature’s noblest behest. Since the fall of man, the process of devolution has reduced many tribes of mankind to a level little higher than the irrational animals, but no tribe has been discovered that does not regard its boys as its greatest treasures.
Subject Area
Theology|Criminology
Recommended Citation
O'Hehir, Martin Otteran, "Boyology" (1929). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31195518.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31195518
