Show or III rolly without g swag to abo absurd ru length 1 gh 10 lo I 1 81 all hichi binando many now do of crimo crime to insanity inanity and thus thug a u tamir modern criminal cri on that absurd abst t plea I 1 however brever that bat whilo a sudden laou Lo the deliberate OU or even pla planning ong of a murder boes does not justify gay jury io in considering it insanity in P Y yet Y 21 i a long pois possession ossion of despotic daP power wj 1 IQ in the end induce madness boa and it is therefore a natural result that the great monarchs monarch sand and riders who it have ave acta acted lilo iilo monsters monitors have bavo become ianno inane in ane brough the flattery and coward ice ice of their subjects no nation is oppressed ty by A tyrant that bas baa not do served it 1 hen wo we perceive tho the evi evil effects which indulging children has hag upon them we must allow its if influence up on tho the human buman hearte and annj so much tile tho greater deflect on men when bowed donsie doa a to by mil millions liong lot hut much odthe tyranny and despotism of tho the world have been the result of cerebral disease and if eutico had been dono done not nob alow a biow of ol 01 tho the rulers of history would have been in asylums for ibo insane cil the boully roman koman emper or or was certainly a lunati luo alio ilia awes stan sion to the ho chrono was greeted with joy by the roman people and ho he afterward so popular by the generous adi and conciliatory acts othis reign that when ho he was attacked with sic knevi sacrifices c were offered in ia tho the temples for lis his recovery afis brain undoubtedly undoubted me diseased d during his siclo T fur from that time ho was a changed man maa the rema remaining inin four years of lii reign were dl y of alic most an it acts acox of tyranny recorded in history 0 lie o f put to death a large alt number of bis seni iton ten days ho h e human victims to 0 lo be devoured by wild I casts and jocosely joo termed chiq horrid at clearing lis his ac count iio divino hobora lo 10 IM paid to bil in a templo erected expressly for that purpose nod and under the superintendence of PrIel priests tso of f his own ap lie invited his favorite come orba Inci talus tatus iodine at the royal table here ho he was led fed on gilded oata oats an aad rank drank wino wine froni from jeweled gobl etil and but for lis na premature death this thia would have been raised to tho the consul consulship bip la in a more enlightened and liberal age Cali Kula would have icen ceritto an losado illana retreat tho romans endured his cruelty for four years and then put hini him to death by ft a well planned and d successful cov conspiracy piracy the career of nero was somewhat like that of in youth ho he was notably clever kindly and amiable and for tho the firt first yean of his reign he be ruled with wilh clemency and justice ifo was at this timo time to harras cd ty ly the attempts of fhil his mother to wrest the sceptre front from tiia his hanl hands chat his big brain probably became disordered and ho was r into a tyrant ila iio pel po his big awn brother at a fearl lo 10 he bo had invited him bins his its mother agrippina lio lie in ia her own bed I 1 lie in re rc anaw y persecuted tho the christiana christian on all tho the pica that they had set fire uro to rome ho Ilo caused to bo be executed lucan tho the poet t and the phil opher and 10 iclef hw his own wilb to death nor ans his bis insanity manifested by acts of cruelty alone lio ila bad a silly rage rac lor for music 1 and in his bia morbid ambition am bilion to be thou the greate bt bauger of tile world orl slit ho be appeared on the bt igo to in tho the character ot at an operatic performer perforator Do I 1 and possibly pot silly some bowe of the consuls have been gaind dom like ani and ecna began to 0 o reign with wilh and under tho the pressures and worrying of government he be developed into a re suster hadit his big horse COnt connul til 3 appointed pointe a sea ato ate of women forced tho tu klomans Rou lanit to lo worship a blace stone and prepared golden swords and daggers dag gera cale and corda ord of bilk and gold old in order to put an end to ins own liec when he saw fab all A 11 these were tho the freaks of a madman ale alexander ander tho the G groat avat behaved lilo like a ill lunario nat to I 1 in the utter latter days of his reign and tho the supposition ii h that thaw if he bad survived a few years loner longer lie mil lit have become a most hitup duj lie and ng capricious tyrant from being very be gave say e bial fell up to tol debauchery y llis I 1 its lust fur for power became bey I 1 a als altol pierre and rome eoma other oilier faders in the french ere probably i made tuoro or less ia inane ane by the exi ox cuing 1 in which they took biart it 13 certa certain ln that Robes pierrO waal was naturally kind hearted and considerate lor for bit lio began life ty by endeavoring lo 10 procuro procure alio he abolition of capital I 1 ment loun of kofl 1 WAS insane both in I 1 his de botio cruelty aad a 10 W kioes ilo ile shut up lit ahti bac i in cages 0 or r huog bung than on the trees of the forest ho lived 10 cooata nt fear of death kept ID 8 e clumon in his hid castlo castle was waa on ciuti ta majc t C terms with his hia hangman bang nian amused himself by watching battles between rats rat i and rats cita c ita drank the blood of 1 youn oung childr co rod tried various abo abominable all 1 able compounds in 10 order to lii chiq life tho the notorious iid judge vasa was a roll t that lat he bo was waa allowed to arendo at tho the circuits is ia a severer comment on 00 tile tho POT n ill thin illin in on the political cruelty of abo age I 1 |