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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: he had written, that he had nowhere to go, and had been to the
end of the jetty with the intention of drowning himself. Bain
replied somewhat caustically that he thought it a pity he had not
done so, as nothing would have given him greater joy than going
to the end of the jetty and identifying his body. "You speak
very plainly," said Butler. "Yes, and what is more, I mean what
I say," replied Bain. Butler justified Bain's candour by saying
that if he broke out again, he would be worse than the most
savage tiger ever let loose on the community. As a means of
obviating such an outbreak, Butler suggested that, intellectual
employment having failed, some form of manual labour should be
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