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Show The Bishop and the Bum. Sir Robert Anderson, a veteran of the Sotland Yard detective force, of London, England, maintains that bums and criminals often spring from blameless families, that they may be reclaimed, and that the offspring of criminal families may be developed into respectability if caught young. Max Nordau maintains the reverse on each of these three points. He insists on the literal truth of the proverb: "Like father, like son." Nordau also claims that the sins of the fathers are written on the faces of their sons. Recently Anderson arid Nordau got into an argument on the subject in London and Anderson produced two photographs, one of a bishop, and the other of a burglar, and challenged Nordau to point out the criminal. After some consideration Nordau declined de-clined to make the attempt. |