Quotation by Tennessee Claflin

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.
Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923), U.S. journalist, lecturer, and social reform advocate; relocated to England. Talks and Essays, vol. 1, ch. 7 (1897).

This book was actually published under Claflin's second married name, Lady Cook. Her second husband was Francis Cook, an Englishman who became a baronet in 1886.
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