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Ethics as applied to Criminology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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The relation of criminality to the other forms of pathological and abnormal humanity is one of degree. If we represent the highest degree, as crime, by A6, A5, say, would stand for insane criminality, and A4 for alcoholism, perhaps, A3 for pauperism, A2 for those weak forms of humanity that charity treats more especially, and A for the idea of wrong in general, particularly in its lightest forms. Thus, crime is the most exaggerated form of wrong; but these forms are all one in essence. A drop of water is as much water as is an ocean.
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- Part I.—Original Articles
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1891
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∗ It is well known that Westphal rendered guinea pigs epileptic by blows on the head with a hammer.Google Scholar
† These ideas have been developed with great ability by an illustrious savant, M. Bertrand, perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Science, in one of his last academical addresses.Google Scholar
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