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A speculative narrator depicts a near-future nation where a youthful, reforming government reshapes society by enforcing strict age-based turnover in power and a harsh new legal regime aimed at both criminals and political law-deniers. Crime is met with deterministic measures: expanded capital penalties carried out through sequestered, church-supervised passages rather than spectacle, while child offenders are placed in disciplined settlements with vocational training. The narrative examines the policy rationale, public reaction, and moral tensions between uncompromising order and humanitarian objections, alongside institutional practices for repentance, reintegration, and containment.

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Title: The island of anarchy: A fragment of history in the 20th century

Author: Elizabeth Waterhouse

Release date: November 30, 2022 [eBook #69449]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Miss Langley, Lovejoy's Library, 1887

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The Island of Anarchy.
A Fragment of History in the 20th Century.

BY
E. W.
“Bind thyself with one cord.”
PUBLISHED BY MISS LANGLEY,
LOVEJOY’S LIBRARY, READING.
1887.
Chiswick Press:
Charles Whittingham and Co.,
Tooks Court, London.