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more sedulously than that of almost any other class, 

 rich or poor. 



The criminal is more nearly allied to the insane, 

 especially the congenital insane, than to any other 

 class, and personally he bears a strong family likeness 

 to his near relative the idiot. In the criminal we find 

 small, over-large, and ill-shapen heads ; paralysis, 

 squints, asymmetrical faces, deformed, shrunken, ill- 

 developed bodies ; abnormal conditions of the genital 

 organs, large heavy jaws, outstanding ears, and a 

 restless, animal-like, or brutal expression, all of which 

 are common characters among the inmates of our idiot 

 and imbecile asylums. And as there is no beauty to 

 be found among the inmates of our asylums, neither 

 is there any to be discovered in our prisons, which 

 shows how well founded is that instinctive feeling of 

 repulsion excited by the sight of the ill-favoured and 

 deformed. 



Of a truth the insane, the idiotic, the epileptic, and 

 the criminal are bone of one bone and flesh of one 

 flesh. They spring from like parents and succumb 

 to like diseases. Until recently their relationship 

 was recognised. The same devil in whose service 

 the criminal delights " possessed " the maniac, tore 

 the epileptic, and robbed the idiot of his God-sent 

 reason, and the overt act of the criminal, the epileptic, 

 and the insane alike was awarded the dungeon cell 

 and the whip. Happily the day of corporal punish- 

 ment for the maniac is past: recognising his inability 

 to change his nature, we now humanely seclude him 



