| Show El C OP OF SPECIAL STUDIES Chicago Chronicle In the Denver Jail jai at present Is a man who appears to have been made a criminal by the study of or criminology Ho lIe 10 Is a finely educated and pros pros- porous perou physician with wih wealthy connections con con- and for man many years ear stood high In n his profession proCessIon but he lie has committed com coin mUted a long hong series of crimes such as forgery forger and arid the passing of bogus checks and Is now probably on the wa way to the penitentiary Ho lie lays 1 It I all al to the fact tact that for nine years year ho lie hohas hohas has been a a profound student of or tho the science of criminology His Ils theo theory is that this study simply developed a a. natural tendency He ridicules th the supposed effect ot or en en- No No- Noman man he says nays was over made matle a criminal or an honest hones i t man by his habits habis and associations but e everything Is traceable to heredi heredi- t ty He Tie Is perfectly sure that he Is Isa Isa a born boin bol thief thIer and he ho contends that the thc creM great mass mas of criminals have a criminal bent which they can cn not re resist resist resist re- re and are Irresponsible for their acts acts This case Is Interesting maIn mainly because because because be be- cause It I is a new corroboration of the general theory theor of or autosuggestion There here are arc at least leat two other well well- wl- wl known kinds of cases ces It I Is an au extremely extremely ex- ex sad thing thIne that noted alienists are arc arc apt to become Insane and arid that man many brilliant brilant physicians who give themselves up lp to the thA study of ot a particular par par- disease develop that disease and die of IL it It On the same principle physicians strongly disapprove of their patients patents reading treatises on their diseases It I is possible that this unfortunate mans man's theory In regard to his pr predisposition pre pre- disposition to crime ma may be true also In iii the case of or alienists and other specialists specialists who suffer In the same Fame way that lint he lie has suffered but what he he- says says says' of environment Is absolutely untrue The best bo boy on earth b by nature may mayb maybe maybe b be made Into a la lazy thief liar lar and I n murderer ur erel and the purest girl on earth b by nature may be made mado Into an Im Impure impure Im- Im pure and ald disgusting virago b by I The Tho theory theol that lint people are crimInals criminals criminals crimi crimI- nals b by nature nn and that therefore they are Irre Irresponsible and should not be punished Is just as far wide of or the truth Crime Is not the only thing that Is natural to people people Th The same may be said of every ever conceivable good or bad bal trait of or character and the In Inference Inference In- In ference Is that nobody Is accountable for anything an and no nobody bod should be made to suffer sulTer In any wa way vay to for 1 his acts which would bo be an absurd and andr r ruinous en erOl error or It Is a n self correcting self error however for if people are not responsIble for crime neither Is so society society so- so responsible for punishing them Tho The on only I lesson leson that can be learned front the case of or the Denver physician and from other cases in which pl- pl phy- phy have ha been the victims of their own specialties concerns the strange power which the human mind has to jure not only the body but the mind itself Isef b by excessive or monotonous ap ap- ap- ap The fhe effect of the mind on the he body both to produce disease and to cure CUO it is well wel known but is probably probably abl ably something new that lint by being It I can undermine mental character Moderate exercise and constant change seem to be the lie law of or bod bodily I mental and moral morl sanity |
