\HIS country, during the last 

 thirty or forty years, has pro- 

 duced some of the most re- 

 markable cases of insanity of which 

 there is any mention in history. 

 For instance, there was the Baldwin 

 case, in Ohio, twenty-two years ago. 

 Baldwin, from his boyhood up, had 

 been of a vindictive, malignant, 

 quarrelsome nature. He put a boy's 

 eye out once, and never was heard 

 upon any occasion to utter a regret 

 for it. He did many such things. 

 But at last he did something that 

 was serious. He called at a house just after dark, one evening, knocked, and 

 when the occupant came to the door, shot him dead, and then tried to escape, 



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