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the king, bandied a box as if brandisbing a dagger, climbed 

 to a windoAv and insulted the sentinel, resisted five men who 

 tried to disarm him, and continued in this condition for eight 

 hours. 



The next day he denied having done any of these things, avowed 

 that he was a good monarchist and a good citizen, and declared dis- 

 tinctly that he had not do]ie 



what he had done, in the " 



face of the concurrent tes- 

 timony of several witnesses. 

 On renewing the experi- 

 ment a few days afterward 

 with eighty grammes of al- 

 cohol, the same series of 

 phenomena recurred — a 

 real anarchistic raving, a 

 genuine mania for regi- 

 cide, which would certainly 

 have ended in some act if 

 he had not been restrained 

 by force; and this person, 

 who had at first present- 

 ed an evident obtusity of 

 touch and an extraordinary 

 contraction of the visual 

 field, now exhibited an al- 

 most normal toucb of three millimetres and a visual field enlarged 

 to triple its extent when he was sober. 



On the day after this he recollected none of all the things that 

 had happened the day before. This double personality was deter- 

 mined in him by alcohol, as it is in others by misery or by fanati- 

 cism, while it rests with all upon a congenital basis. The fact 

 helps us to explain how some inoffensive man may have a type of 

 physiognomy quite similar to that of Ravachol, showing how often 

 there are true criminals in potency, whose physiognomy, or rather 

 the anomalies of it, bears a prophetic relation to the crime which 

 breaks out on the first determining circumstance. And we have 

 here another explanation of such contradictory characters as those 

 of Ravachol, Caserio, and Luccheni, who, having been once well- 

 behaved, end by becoming criminals. 



Visual Field (Left Eye) of Chie . . . Giac . . . 



The line indicates the normal visual 



field Heft eye). 

 Tlie line 



indicates the visual field (left 



eye) under alcoholic excitement. 



Applied science was defined by Sir W. Roberts Austen, in his presi- 

 dential address to the Iron and Steel Institute, 1899, as " nothing but the 

 application of pure science to particular classes of problems." 



