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Show subject in tie world apparently than any of them. After a long examination one of them turned to a ' man beside him who had been instrumental in having the commission appointed and said : "You' call this man insane? He knows more than all of us put together." ' : The man replied : . , 1 "Ask him about Isaiah.' . " Taking the cue the questioner said : "Are you familiar with the JJible!" "Oh, yes," was the reply. "Do you not think there-are some beautiful things in Job!" "Indeed there are," was the answer, and then he repeated verse after verse in a, tone and manner that thrilled all his audience. "Do you not think there is some magnificent po-' po-' etry in the Psalms!" was the next remark. And then he repeated a psalm in a way to enchant en-chant all who listened. "But," said the questioner, "do you not think, after all, that some of the most sublime passages in the Bible are found in Isaiah t " The man under examination replied: "Do you think sot" v i ' The questioner said: "Yes, I do." "Well," said the man, "I am much obliged to you. Let me tell you a secret. I am Isaiah.' There are forms of insanity that no court nor jury can discover. Then there is insanity that seems to lie dormant for years, and all at'once it blazes out, and those who study the question must feel that when an ordinary court and jury undertake to judge whether a human mind is clear or cloudy they are in the fix that they would be if required to decide upon the merits of a picture with half its tints obscured in a darkened room. . WHO CAN FATHOM A HUMAN MIND? Dr. George Franklin Shiels recently repd at Bridgeport, Conn., a paper on "Insanity," which defines, de-fines, the difference between the medical and legal definition of insanity. He defines legal insanity as follows : "A man or a woman is insane who does not "know the difference between right and wrong in regard re-gard to any specific particular act, and who further does not know the consequences of committing such act." As to the legal methods of discovering a per . son's sanity when accused of a criminal act they seem to be altogether imperfect, and then the physicians physi-cians summoned are there in the interest of the prosecution pros-ecution or the defendant and not many of them can fail from being biased. His proposition is to substitute for the present method an alternative method; that each side select two experts, the four a fifth, and the five present their report ; or that the matter be left entirely in the hands of the court to select the experts, whose testi-xnony testi-xnony shall be presented to the jury. Even that would not establish anything in some cases'. There are plenty of men that are sane enough ' except that they are utterly conscienceless, and they commit a crime to satisfy any whim of theirs without . feeling any remorse or without doubting their own intelligence. .There are' men with natures precisely such as ' "Evelyn Nesbit Thaw made clear in her own case. On . the stand she showed that she was born without any , moral responsibilities whatever, and then who shall j compass the human mind T . Not many years ago a man was arraigned, .charged with insanity. A board of experts examined Jiim. He paralyzed them, for he knew more on every; i - .. . . . |