By the nineteenth century... new circumstances called for new conformity enforcers... The government locked you in a house of penitence-a penetentiary-where your feelings of remorse would theoretically pummel you without cease. (Howard Bloom)

By the nineteenth century... new circumstances called for new conformity enforcers... The government locked you in a house of penitence-a penetentiary-where your feelings of remorse would theoretically pummel you without cease.

Howard Bloom

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