RESPONSIBILITY IN CRIME. 



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shout, fight, and pray, perhaps all at the same time as nearly as 

 possible, quite independent of the environment. 



The cases of insanity in reference to which the question of re- 

 sponsibility arises are those whose cerebral substance is only mildly 

 affected by disease, so that in many ways the individual still re- 



Fiu. 10. The course of the several impulses is indicated by the arrows. An explanation 

 of the figure is facilitated by reference to Fig. 5. 



acts to his environment as formerly, especially in so far as his 

 routine duties are concerned ; but in other things, where the cells 

 concerned have been less strongly, steadily, and permanently im- 

 pressed, the disease of the cerebral tissue is sufficient to effect 

 some degree of change in the nature of his response to his environ- 

 ment from what had been usual to him, and it is by studying the 



