Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

attitude toward money, which is regarded not only as
necessary but as a means of satisfying desire. This is not
the way to save the people. Why do not people learn
from the evidence before their own eyes? To take but a
small section of American statistics: after the Second
World War finished, in 1947, the overall figures for the
eight major types of crimes were:
1947 -- 1,560,000
1950 -- 1,790,000
1958 -- 1,796,000
Furthermore, in the State of New York only, the total
number of documented offences was 780,000, and of
them:
354 were murder;
1100 were rape;
6000 were robbery.
Disturbance among youth is reflected in the low
standards of sexual morality and the rises in violent
adolescent crime. In Boston during 1940, 450 cases
were recorded but by 1957 this had more than doubled:
1030 cases.
Diseases which spread through the widespread
looseness of sexual relationships have greatly increased,
and in 1958 there were 200,000 reported cases.
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