The criminal responsibility of the insane : a lecture introductory to the session 1885-6 / by Charles J. Cullingworth.

  • Cullingworth, Charles J. (Charles James), 1841-1908.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The criminal responsibility of the insane : a lecture introductory to the session 1885-6 / by Charles J. Cullingworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    “If,” he says (in the last chapter of his ‘Factors of the unsound mind’), “I seem to have handled a great subject unworthily, I plead in mitigation of my offence, its immense extent and admitted difficulty. If I have run counter to any man’s preconceived opinions, let me assure him that it is not with arrogance or pleasure that I differ from him. To him I desire to attribute that which I claim for myself—a paramount love of truth, and a public spirit which will not suffer me to forget that, while I am a member of a noble profession, I am also a citizen of a great State—a State which, if in some respects she claims to teach the nations how to live, in others shows herself not too proud to learn; a State that has no higher title to respect than that which she derives from her humanity; a State that would suffer indelible disgrace if, ceasing to regard the madman as an object of profound compassion, she should come to treat him as a thing only calculated to excite feelings of intolerance and disgust.” ii