Read the whole "A Lay Sermon" by Ingersoll. There is a lot more stupid where this came from. Every crime a necessity? Tell that to a woman who has just been raped or a child that has been molested. Poverty makes crime? Really? If that is the case, the poorest countries in the world would have the highest crime rates, which is obviously not the case. If this guy were alive today he'd be a college professor or in the Obama administration. Someone educated beyond their ability to think.