Most reformers in the first half of the nineteenth century believed that

a. hard work, discipline, and solitude would put criminals on the path to productive lives.
b. the middle class should have as little to do with the poor as possible.
c. the working class should organize and rise up in revolt.
d. they could learn a lot from the poor.


ANSWER: a

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