The Criminal
The Criminal
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* Leaves from a Prison Diary ^ p. 119, Digitized by Google 126 TH£ CRIMINAL.
very closely with the faith of that religious sect who in Commonwealth days held "that heaven and all happiness consists in the acting of those things which are sin and wickedness," and "that such men and women are most perfect and like to God or eternity which do commit the greatest sins with least remorse." Despine, in his Psychologic Naturelle (1868), studied this question on the largest scale in order to obtain exa...ct results. " I addressed myself for this purpose," he tells us, "to the collection of the Gazette des TribunauXy going back to 1825, and I soon acquired certainty that this psychical peculiarity is an invariable rule among these criminals. . • • I acquired the cer- tainty that those who premeditate and commit crime in cold blood never experience moral remorse. I found also that those who manifest acute sorrow an^ real remorse after a criminal act, have committed that act either under the influence of a violent passion which has momentarily stifled the moral sense, or by accident, without intention." He concludes that the two great psychical conditions for crime are moral insensibility and perversity, with two accessory moral anomalies, imprudence and lack of foresight.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
* Leaves from a Prison Diary ^ p. 119, Digitized by Google 126 TH£ CRIMINAL.
very closely with the faith of that religious sect who in Commonwealth days held "that heaven and all happiness consists in the acting of those things which are sin and wickedness," and "that such men and women are most perfect and like to God or eternity which do commit the greatest sins with least remorse." Despine, in his Psychologic Naturelle (1868), studied this question on the largest scale in order to obtain exa...ct results. " I addressed myself for this purpose," he tells us, "to the collection of the Gazette des TribunauXy going back to 1825, and I soon acquired certainty that this psychical peculiarity is an invariable rule among these criminals. . • • I acquired the cer- tainty that those who premeditate and commit crime in cold blood never experience moral remorse. I found also that those who manifest acute sorrow an^ real remorse after a criminal act, have committed that act either under the influence of a violent passion which has momentarily stifled the moral sense, or by accident, without intention." He concludes that the two great psychical conditions for crime are moral insensibility and perversity, with two accessory moral anomalies, imprudence and lack of foresight.
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