The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.

  • Havelock Ellis
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The criminal / by Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. THE STUDY OF THE CRIMINAL. When Homer described Thersites as ugly and de- formed, with harsh or scanty hair, and a pointed head, Hke a pot that had collapsed to a peak in the baking— Aio'X'O'TOS 5^ Avrjp virb'TXiov fjKBev, ^o\k6s ir)v, xtoXds 5' irepov irbda. rd) Si ol w/j.(j} Kvprdi, M (TT^^os <rvvoxoJK6Te, airap iiirepdev 0of6s ^1?!' K€(pa\T]v, i/'eSi'T) S'sTevrivoOe \dxfr] —he furnished evidence as to the existence of a criminal type of man. These physical characters of Thersites are among those which in these last days have been submitted to scientific observation, and to statistics, and have been largely justified. The epigrammatic utterances in which primitive peoples crystallise and pass on their philosophy and science, include many sayings which prove the remote period at which men began to perceive the organic peculi- arities which separate the criminal man from the average man. There are some proverbs of this character, such as those indicating the widespread dislike of the red-haired, for which no solid justi- fication has yet been found ; but among various races, and in many countries, numerous proverbs are in harmony with the results of modern research: A
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