Sensational stories and publications educate youth in wickedness and incite crime through imaginative reenactment.
Draft interpretation · MH 444.4
Original passage
Many of the popular publications of the day are filled with sensational stories that are educating the youth in wickedness and leading them in the path to perdition. Mere children in years are old in a knowledge of crime. They are incited to evil by the tales they read. In imagination they act over the deeds portrayed, until their ambition is aroused to see what they can do in committing crime and evading punishment.
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