The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-02
The Interesting Case of the Criminal Whom
 Surgery Didn't Reform


 sion of ideas of free will and scrutiny of stand ard theories of morality we'll revision of ideas of punishment proof of the statement in the first paragraph this editorial
 It seems that Milwaukee young man was arrested for burglary found guilty and imprisoned The doctors removed depressed portion of his skull decided that he might reform, they attributed iniquity defective brain activity created by pressure.
 But the young man' after period of good behaviour reapsed into The doctors decided that the silver plate which had been substituted for the portion of skull removed, pressing upon the brain They remedied this defect and the patient remained normal for year when he committed burglary He has been sent to the penitentiary for five years.
 The Springfield Republican thinks that the diagnosis of the doctors may have been though their treat nent failure
 This conclusion may be sound. Departure from the normal to the extent of committing crime, may times be the result of purely physical changes when formerly sound intellect and good morals injured upon the head and becomes the victim of honicda manila
 The innoraites that grow out of the excessive use of liquor undoubtedly the result of changes in brain tissue and brain activities which physical in characters but results in the domain of morals.
 But this view, which is undoubtedly correct in linn ited number of has it nsidious attack upon the whole doctrine of free will.
 Carried to conclusion, it would bring mankind under the mechanist philosophy which predlcates that humanity group of machines less automatic bound to grind certain product i'll activities and moral be- haviour, if certain conditions fulfilled.
 For if apparent injury to the brain to gan remote from the brain may turn moral into i'm manifested spirituality nothing ness, why not all the phenomena of immortality bel imputed to physical defects not distnushabe let say, blow on the head
 Indistngushable 1esions, arrested brain develop and other causes may conceivaby have the eff feet morality a depressed skull Is all crime then to be imputed to mechanical defects in the human body?
 Is there for free. .will2
 What difference should be made in treatment of criminals, the mechanist theory is accepted?
 These questions which wise attempting to answer in all civilized countries.
 Why is unlike another? ''If every was like the other,'' said the Lunar Monarch in H. G. Wes The First Man in the Moon everybody would do the thing
 Men differ The difference is in that strange organ call the brain and in that unknown thing called Spir it' which is the master behind the brain.
 The brain through the eye,and the spirit fabric of what to it. Let the eye be impaired and the fails The Spirit is deprived somewhat of the material to work upon
 Thus, assuming, that there is intimate necon between moral defects and physical defects noth ing happened that the material machine fails connect the internal master with the outside world.
 The Spirit DOES manifest through normal bodies, l. and the spiritual IS capable of free will and with his soul force mould himself and the world about
 It becomes the function of society discriminate carefully, however between deectives and the normal among offenders which society administers be not for punishment but for prevention.
 Let criminals be treated morally sick and their be sought rather than that pain inflicted them because they have inflicted pain upon body else To show that crime has physical origin, and that certain physically incapable of leading lives of normal morality implies another duty. E He who cannot if he will, give right his fellows must be restrained that he do damage
 Men who are ncorrgibly criminal will under such yten be finally segregated from normal persons. punishment but for the we'll being of society.