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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...responsible for his conduct: but all human tribunals are fallible; and how, when this plea of insanity is raised, can we unveil the mind of the accused, and determine where responsibility ends and irresponsibility begins? There is no physician, however conversant he may be with the phenomena of the disease, that can draw this line of demarcation. We may, it is true, be put into the witness-box--but what then? "May it please your excellency, your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar and in the dungeon That wise men know your felon by his features." We may appreciate outward and visible signs; but we have no mentometer (if I may be allowed to coin a word) which will indicate the thoughts that may be passing through the mind. In medical jurisprudence the diagnosis between sanity and insanity is, in many cases, infinitely difficult; and it is upon this account that specialists in this branch of our profession so often come into collision with members of the bar, and draw down upon themselves occasionally animadversions from the Judges on the bench. There would be no such difference of opinion between the two learned professions if we could arrive at any fixed principles by which Werner, Act II., sc. 1. MOTIVES AND ACTIONS. 125 we could explain the silent operations of the mind--but this, so far as insanity is concerned, is as impossible in law as it. is in medicine. We may adjudicate upon the overt act--but the motive which dictated it will very often elude the most searching examination. But this happens continually in sane as well as in insane life. Every man performs daily a variety of actions, without having at the moment any ostensible object in view, or motive of which he is conscious; and if called upon to e...Hide synopsis
Suggestions for the Future Provision of Criminal Lunatics (1854) (Kessinger Publishing) – Trade paperback (2008)
by
William Charles Hood
Trade paperback, Kessinger Publishing 2008
English
216 pages
ISBN: 1437079873 ISBN-13: 9781437079876
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