We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. (Havelock Ellis)

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Havelock Ellis

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