Education, personality and crime; a practical treatise built up on scientific details, dealing with difficult social problems (1908) (14761271301)

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Title: Education, personality & crime ; a practical treatise built up on scientific details, dealing with difficult social problems
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Albert, 1854-1928
Subjects: Crime Personality Education and crime Social problems Crime Personality
Publisher: London, Greening & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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tion of fibres—Their chemical composition : aids in staining processes. FLECHSIGS DISCOVERIES : Sensory fibres are insulated before motor—Association fibres last—A sense of position. If any lay reader be interested in the previous chapter he willnaturally inquire into the more delicate or microscopic structureof the brain. It requires no apology for introducing thismaterial, for it is essential in order to understand the evolutionof the childs mind and the mental phenomena of the weak-minded and of the criminal. It is just this absense of technicaldetail which prevents the politicians, philanthropists andlawyers from joining with the medical faculty in placing crimin-ology on its true basis. They talk of liberty, free will, andresponsibility, as if they had the same value amongst thisclass as amongst others. The physical basis, therefore, must be recognized, and itis the only firm structure on which we can build a healthysocial system or commonwealth. Two normal pyramidal cells.
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Two diseased cells the result or cause of neuritis. Note that the tigroid pattern hasbecome diffuse or powdery; and one nucleus is being pushed out. To face page 95. Kindly lent by Dr. John Turner. THE MINUTE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN 95 We must realize that man was not a sudden afterthought Man isor accident in the creation, but that he became the capping ju^on^ofstone, after ages of evolution through lower stages. This is Countlessexemplified during the foetal condition, where his development ^^*in utero reflects at different stages the lower forms of life fromwhich he is evolved. We need only concern ourselves withthe brain, without pursuing the details of primitive types.Suffice it to recapitulate that the optic lobes and other gangliain the brains of fish and birds are represented at the base ofthe human brain. In the mammals an improved superstructureis added, which has been suggested in birds. This superstruc-ture we call the Cortex or grey matter, and it contains rowsof cells and