📖 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... fainting-fits. We have not, however, been able to discover the least indication of his excesses being connected with regularly recurring depression. The patient's moral incapacity from childhood contrasts very sharply with his intellectual talents. But it is well known from every-day life that morality and intellect are to a great extent independent of each other. These cases are therefore generally designated as moral imbecility or moral feeble-mindedness. Such men are born criminals by nature, and are only distinguished from ordinary criminals by the great extent of their moral incapacity, by their having wills completely unaffected by the restraining experiences of life, and by their being fundamentally incorrigible. There is, therefore, as a rule, no other course to be taken, for their own sake, and for the sake of those around them, than to isolate them as being unfit for society, and as far as possible to find them occupation.* A still more fantastic personality is presented by an actor, aged thirty, who was brought to us three weeks ago because he had swindled a prostitute of a diamond ring under an assumed name. He simply put it on his finger, and made an appointment with the girl for the next day at a fashionable hotel, where he was not to ...