HEREDITY OF CRIME.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2157, 31 January 1891, Page 1

HEREDITY OF CRIME.

CURIOUS PHASEB AND THE DIRE FUL RESULTS \OW. INHERITED DISEASE. Doubtless crime is committed from the mere love of it. The identity of " Jack tha Ripper," remains undiscovered, snd so we do not know what impelled him to the commission of his atrociou;s crimes. Little doubt he was actions controlled by an abnormal conjlition of the mind ; it is plain none of the*prdinary leasons for crime prevailed in this case. He was, perhaps, a victim of some hereditary taiut, which drove him to acta against which his will revolted, and from which in his rational moments his soul recoiled in horror. A French novelist of realism makes the hero of a.late novel of such a character. He was a jojomotive engineer, a thoroughly competent and reliable man, but if he chanced to behold the white throat of a woman, a wild frenzy seized him ; he could not control a desire to plunge a knife in it. He waß aware of his infirmity, fought it with stubborn will, denied himself the society of women, and for years controlled himself. At last he meets his fate; fiodß pleasure in her Rpoiety, with no return of his old loßging for blood, until,he fla'ters he is safe. But one night Bbe meets him with glooming throat Dare ; the uncontro'lable impulse seizes him ; he cannot resist ; as she throws her loviDg arms about him, he thrustu the knife into her neck, aod she falls, a victim to the madness of tainted blood. Fortunately for the victims of ordinary forma of inherited disease they may protect themselves before it obtain* dominance in the system. Inherited kidney disease is especially dangerous, but may be successfully resisted. "In) 1883 I was so near death's door with an inherited and complicated ciee of Bright'* disease," writes James H. Dove, 217 Baldwin Street, Alphena. JMich., August 11, 1880, " which had baffled all remediss ind medical assistance obtainable, and 1 was given up by friooda and physicians oe beyond all recovery. In this extremity I was induced to try Warnei'u Bafe cure, which very soon gave me relief, and led me to persevere in its hsp, until I again became able to attend to my business. My case is well known in this community, md 1 feel fully warranted in recommending Warner's safe cure in cases of kidney disease, knowing full well that I would have long since been iD my grave had it ■iot been for the use of this remedy." Men and womeD inherit geaiu*, talent, all »n?ntal and physical qualities ; and it is now well established that all phases of phys'dl as well as mental disease are transmisaablp.