Others, through indulging their temper, are in the way of becoming insane; but their mental unsoundness is not so marked as to cause the lunacy specialists to certify them.
A life of alternate indulgence and repression tends to unsoundness of mind; and I have seen men and women, who when first they fell into criminal courses were free from any suspicion of insanity, gradually degenerate and become insane.
A very small proportion of prisoners are persons of unsound mind, and in most cases the mentalunsoundness is the result of their own misconduct.
An indiscreet act of his youth was now converted into a formidable accusation, [377:1] whilst some incautious speculations in which he had indulged were urged as evidences of his unsoundness in the faith.
Supposing then that, in the case before the court, the fact of insanity is established, the next question of Jurisprudence to determine is this: How far and why ought such unsoundness of mind to exclude responsibility for deliberate acts?
Here a difficulty presents itself, which we must explain at once, namely, how can there be unsoundnessof mind at all?
Their unsoundness arises from the fact that they reason from false premises; and they get their false premises from their diseased imaginations, whose vagaries they take for realities.
Is he now, or was he then, so far controlled by his mental unsoundness as to be incapable of acting like a rational being accountable for his actions?
Toombs stood convicted before many of his old followers of "unsoundness on the slavery question"--but he was performing his greatest public work.
Corns may be considered a serious unsoundness in driving horses.
The most common cause for this unsoundnessis inflammation of the muscles and tendons of the flexors of the digit.
It is not uncommon to meet with this unsoundness in young horses that have never been worked.
This unsoundnessis common in heavy horses, especially if worked on city streets.
The causes of this unsoundnessare hereditary and accidental.
Unsoundness is often due to faulty methods in handling, as well as to poor wheat, or to lack of proper cleaning of the wheat or flour.
High acidity also is an indication of unsoundness or of poor keeping qualities.
Boys,[91] where the will was upheld, on the ground that there was no satisfactory proof of actual unsoundness of mind.
These things (and how many more) show some deep unsoundness in the marriage relations.
There is an unsoundness in our marriage relations," Hinton wrote.
All the principles appertaining to science are based on certain established laws; the unsoundness of one renders the superstructure unsound also; and any deductions drawn from unsound principles are comparatively worthless.
It is because they are sound in the main, in those portions of their mental constitution which their daily work calls into play; and because they are seldom required to do those things which their unsoundness makes them unfit to do.
There is unsoundness in the kindly, loveable man, whose opinions are preposterous, and whose conversation that of a jackass.
In poetry, and in all imaginative writing, we look for beauty, not for sense; and we all know that what is properly disease and unsoundness sometimes adds to beauty.
There is unsoundness in the man who cannot listen to the praises of another man's merit without feeling as though this were something taken from himself.
I should say, indeed, that hisunsoundness passed the limit of practical sanity, and that on certain points he was unquestionably mad.
There was unsoundness in his strange belief in his Fate.
This unsoundness exists in a good many educated men too.
There is unsoundness in the man who is constantly getting into furious altercations with his fellow passengers in steamers and rail-ways, or getting into angry and lengthy correspondence with anybody in the newspapers or otherwise.
There is unsoundness verging on entire insanity in the man who is always fancying that all about him are constantly plotting to thwart his plans and damage his character.
I say nothing of such grave signs of physical unsoundness as little pangs shooting about the heart, and little dizzinesses of the brain; these matters are too serious for this page.
But in the case of great geniuses who are screws, it is often because of their unsoundness that they do the fine things they do.
An unsoundnesscommon to all uneducated people is, that they cannot argue any question without getting into a rage and roaring at the top of their voice.
There is unsoundness in the perverse person who resolutely docs the opposite of what you wish and expect: who won't go the pleasure excursion you had arranged on his account, or partake of the dish which has been cooked for his special eating.
The soundness of the scarcity-utility theory, as well as the unsoundness of the labor theory, may be brought out with reference to three classes of goods.
Or in the pursuit of fine art, an amateur discouraged by the glaring unsoundness of the kind of art taught by ordinary drawing-masters, would find the basis of a more substantial superstructure on a narrower but firmer ground.
The inhabitants of the Roman Empire were afflicted with mental unsoundnessand Nero was considered crazy.
Greek writers speak of cases of mental unsoundness as occurring with some frequency in Greece.
If this sort of mental unsoundness did justify subjects in withdrawing their obedience from princes, the doctrine of nonresistance was completely given up; and all that any moderate Whig had ever contended for was fully admitted.
If this sort of mental unsoundness did not justify subjects in withdrawing their obedience from princes, the plan of a Regency was evidently indefensible.
Already he had given abundant proofs of his courage, of his capacity, and of that strange unsoundness of mind which made his courage and capacity almost useless to his country.
The lack of inner form in so much modern drama and art in general can be traced to the original unsoundness of the break with pseudo-classic formalism.
Both the Christian church and Islam demonstrated the unsoundnessof Aristotle's limitation.
If they be opaque or whey coloured, there is some unsoundness in the wort.
Mr. Black further considers that unsoundness of worts is often the result of electricity excited between the mash tun and the copper.
The law acknowledges the state of idiotcy, and the state of lunacy, which properly understood, is a very different thing from that sort of unsoundness of mind which renders a man incapable of managing his affairs or his person.
Now there is a great difference between inability to manage a man's affairs, and imbecility of mind taken as evidence of unsoundness of mind.
MANIA Under the term 'mania' are included all those forms of mental unsoundness in which there is undue excitement.
A person, if suffering from such a state of mental unsoundness as to be unable to take care of his property, may be placed under the care of the Court of Chancery.
The family history must be traced out, and the personal history taken with care, especially as to whether the unsoundness came on late in life or followed any physical cause.
In First month, 1825, the elders presented a charge of unsoundness against Elias Hicks in the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, the intent being to have the charge forwarded to the monthly meeting, but this action was not taken.
It will thus be seen that the charge of unsoundness was entered in Philadelphia Meeting for Sufferings soon after Elias started on his southern visit, but the matter was held practically in suspense for four months.
An effort was made by the opponents of Elias Hicks to make it appear that what they were pleased to call his "unsoundness in doctrine," came late in life, and somewhat suddenly.
Many children are called stupid, and begin their educational career with needless difficulty through an unsoundness of these fundamental intellectual elements, an unsoundness in no way inherent, but the result of accident and neglect.
If any error or unsoundnessbe in it, (as who knoweth) impute it to that frail man which endited it, which professeth to know nothing as he ought to know it.
