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Dr. Seward’s Diary

           No!Buttherecomesanotherwordfromsomeonewhospeakwithoutthoughtbecauseshe,too,knownotwhatitmean,whatitmightmean. Justasthereareelementswhichrest,yetwheninnature’scoursetheymoveontheirwayandtheytouch,thepouf! Andtherecomesaflashoflight,heavenwide,thatblindandkillanddestroysome. Butthatshowupallearthbelowforleaguesandleagues. Isitnotso? Well,Ishallexplain. Tobegin,haveyoueverstudythephilosophyofcrime? ‘Yes’and‘No.’ You,John,yes,foritisastudyofinsanity. You,no,MadamMina,forcrimetouchyounot,notbutonce.Still,yourmindworkstrue,andarguesnotaparticulariaduniversale. Thereisthispeculiarityincriminals. Itissoconstant,inallcountriesandatalltimes,thatevenpolice,whoknownotmuchfromphilosophy,cometoknowitempirically,thatitis.Thatistobeempiric. Thecriminalalwaysworkatonecrime,thatisthetruecriminalwhoseemspredestinatetocrime,andwhowillofnoneother. Thiscriminalhasnotfullmanbrain. Heiscleverandcunningandresourceful,buthebenotofmanstatureastobrain.Hebeofchildbraininmuch. Nowthiscriminalofoursispredestinatetocrimealso. He,too,havechildbrain,anditisofthechildtodowhathehavedone. Thelittlebird,thelittlefish,thelittleanimallearnnotbyprinciple,butempirically.Andwhenhelearntodo,thenthereistohimthegroundtostartfromtodomore. ‘Dospousto,’saidArchimedes.‘Givemeafulcrum,andIshallmovetheworld!’ 

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