CKIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 659 



lips. And as for the moral sentiment, there may be shown a complete 

 indiflerence for the victim. Apathy and egotism may be shown by the 

 preoccupation of the criminal as to the possible duration of his punish- 

 ment and the pleasures of which it will deprive him. If the anthropo- 

 logic student will charge up against the delinquent the kind and the 

 frequency of these small offenses in his extreme infancy, will note his 

 psychologic and anthropologic characters, and take into account the 

 heredity of vice, of insanity, or of crime, he can prophesy that the infant 

 or young person with these mental and moral characteristics \vill, if the 

 provocation or opportunity arise, become an assassin. It is not rare 

 for the psychopathic form to manifest itself in subsequent time, and 

 then one may fairly conclude it to be a case of either insanity, epilepsy, 

 or a born criminal. 



(3) The physical observation of the delinquent should be continued, 

 to the end that one may distinguish the impulsive characters ; that is 

 to say, those characters which impede or prevent moral resistance to 

 the passions which excite to crime, principally anger, vengeance, alco- 

 holism, insanity, epilepsy, and certain other characteristics w^hich de- 

 scend by heredity. This class of delinquents are midway between the 

 malefactors by instinct and those of occasion. Although this tendency 

 to crime is a germ in their individual organisms, which becomes semi- 

 pathologic, yet the germ will rest latent and unproductive, if there is 

 not added to it an impulsion from the exterior world. This impulsion 

 is required in order to cause them to commit crime which leads us to 

 class them as criminals of occasion. As soon as this exterior imi)ulsiou 

 is found to be not necessary, or, if the crime is immoderate as compared 

 with the impulsion, then the delinquent is to be classed as a criminal 

 born. 



The regressive anomalies of the skull and of the physiognomic type 

 of inferior races that has been so frequently remarked in the criminal 

 born are nearly always absent from the imi)ulsive criminal. But on the 

 other hand these latter are characterized by nervous anomalies, and by 

 other striking maladies. It follows as a result of this theory that in 

 murders or assaults arising from a quarrel or riot, one can easily under- 

 stand how there can be two classes of criminals — the criminal impul- 

 sive, and the criminal by chance. The first, which are partially crim- 

 inals born, are much more dangerous to society than the latter. They 

 may commit crime from disease as much as from instinct and ought to 

 be made objects of particular treatment, as much by the medical man 

 in the hospital as the policeman in the prison. 



(4) The terms used in jurisprudence for the description of a great 

 number of crimes signifies nearly nothing for the anthropologist. In 

 the science of criminal anthropology the author of a given crime may 

 be ranged under ditterent classes of criminals. He may be a criminal 

 born 3 he may be a criminal impulsive, or only a criminal of occasion. 



