Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roman traditions go back to the last century when Lombroso advanced his theory of the "born criminal type"*and practically originated the science of criminology. Ideas have gone far since then, but the concept of the criminal as lit subject for scientific examination and treatment has persisted. Dr. Ottolenghi is an outstanding exponent. "Even today," said he, "many estimable authorities do not recognize the intimate relation between criminology and pathology. ... A pickpocket who for future identification is merely 'fingerprinted' may, if properly examined, be found to have highly developed homicidal tendencies. The same may be true...
...These steps can clearly be seen in travelling from the far East to the West as I intend to do on my trip next fall. By visiting all the countries on my itinerary, we shall obtain a concept of the swing of evolution. Opportunity will be given to study the lower forms of animal life, in the case of birds from the cassowary to the bustard, and in the case of mammals from marsupials to elephants and domestic animals, and in the case of humans from the Papuan, with his simple tribal government to the more complex man farther North...
...whether you or I or any one else believes the Battle of Waterloo to have never taken place or the world to be flat. I am not at all impressed with a desire to make people believe in evolution. It is not a mode of life or an ethical concept, and it does not draw forth any emotional reactions nor should...
...announced that there finally had been an international agreement on this subject. The International Geodetic and Physical Union, meeting at Madrid, Spain, adopted the figures of Director John F. Hayford of the College of Engineering of Northwestern University, noted for his demonstration of the theory of isostasy, fundamental concept of the reciprocal balance of segments of the earth. By investigations made in 1909 and 1910, he determined that the diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926,678 miles and 7,889,964 miles through the poles. This establishes that the earth is not a sphere...
...least was willing to learn, so he admitted the evidence. He seemed unconscious of the fact of which he cannot have been wholly unconscious, that in so doing he was opening the steel-barred doors of the criminal courts of this country, and the world, to a new concept of responsibility for crime." Said Judge Caverly (in his opinion) : "It is beyond the province of this court, as it is beyond the capacity of human science in its present state of development, to predicate ultimate responsibility for human acts." This, however, is exactly what the modern psychiatrist does attempt...