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insanity is not a clear one, and that the attempt to draw it sharply 
is futile. ‘ 
In like manner we wilt not attempt to fix responsibility for 
these states and their outcoming acts. It is too deep a question 
for the present state of science, and so we leave it. Practically, 
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be taken of the matter, which is accordant with philosophy and 
effective in practice. The mind of the so-called insane are as 
open to the influence of motives as are those of the sane. If 
those motives are known, supply them in order to produce results, 
Pains and penalties affect the insane, though perhaps in different 
kind and degree, from those that control the sane. or the 
benefit of other disordered minds, if not for that of the guilty 
person, let them be inflicted. This will not be in a spirit of re- 
venge, but in benevolent consideration for the greatest good of 
the greatest number. 
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RECENT LITERATURE: 
fundamental distinction between man and animals,” he proceeds 
. . u < . * 
Givided into numerous races, his origin, antiquity and original 
irth-place, his migrations from his specific center, and the steps 
‘ The Human Species. By A. De Quatref: Profi f Anthropology in the 
. By A. ages vse sane ‘ 
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