It is the strangest problem of humanity - one too, for which the closest investigation can never quite account - to trace the progress by which innocence becomes guilt, and how those who formerly trembled to think of crime, are led on to commit that at which they once shuddered. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

It is the strangest problem of humanity - one too, for which the closest investigation can never quite account - to trace the progress by which innocence becomes guilt, and how those who formerly trembled to think of crime, are led on to commit that at which they once shuddered.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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