Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-22
TYPES OF THE MIND
interesting Discussion by Emil
nent Neurologists
ODD MENTAL MAlF0RMATl0N
Many Criminals Are Morally Irrespon-
siblc, But Society Must Protect
Itself from Them.

The atxocious murders and the hing
iay. Desming. have attracted the atten-
ton of the scicntiae world quite - much
- they have hosrinsd thegensral public-
The men who study nervous diseases
and trace tho connection between them
and abnormal conduct ere MAILING tho
subject Of moral insanity ono Of the
most important questions of tho time.
Some Of them-Dr. Henry Nsudsley, for
instance--iudst that there h such
thing a tho criminal neusoais-that Is.
such diseased. impaired Or detective
condition of tho nsrvo1s tissue a 70
suits inevitably In csims. just - CO..
tain conditions Of tia nervous tissue 70
suit in insanity and othsrs In epilepsy.
The New York academy OF medicine
lately passed resolutions against capital
punishment on the ground that II b inn
possible 10 determine Tho moral respon-
ability Of criminals dnxing the brief
time of . Judicial trial
DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton, who y
one of the foremost authorities In tho
United States ON nervous diseases and
medico-lesal subjecta was asked these
questions. with reference TO Deeming
and his career:
Can science provo tho existence Of
the criminal neurosis? and. II 50. 70
what extent II the criminal afnicted
with such . diseased nervous organize
ton responsible for his crimer'
There y. certainly" replied Dr.
Hamilton. - strongly marked criminal
type. recognizable by physical paculiari-
ties. in which moral responsibility Ia
greatly lessened. and In extrcme cases
disappears a. entirely - IL does tn ex-
treme cases Of lunacy. do not think,
however. that criminal neurosis' il
quite the proper term TO spply to such
eases. although it has been used by
some writers on the subject Il cannot
be said positively that such mornl de-
generacy Is the result of functional dis
turbance in tho nerve element The
subject h . very broad one. of the
greatest Importance 10 society, and Is
receiving the attention Of some g the
foremost investigators Of nervous dis
esses and in their social relstions-such
a. La,nbroso. in Italy; Havelock. Ellis
and Others
The criminal type h MARRIED by Pc
cuiiarities In The shape of ths head,
which il apt 20 be MARROW and angular;
by large and prominent eara. an ex-
presnion Of low cunning and tho asym-
metrsral bssd and f.cs. There are among
such people oil daRrsss Of moral respon-
rbxlisy. I do noe believe myself in
moral insanity that u not accompanied
by soms ds9res Of mental diDesse or
deferx. True. there have been great
criminals who have poase0sd keen In
Isllecsn. but thetr mental qualities have
always bsen moro or les peculiar and
developed mainly m The line of cunning
and schemine = ths development that
would nssur1l1y results from the con-
slant use Of their fssultiss In criminal
wsya
Persons Married by this moral de-
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termarriaee smunG criminals and
arunlnrdA wfl3ah. continued through
FenrssiDun, y dmpay cultivation OF
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