James Leslie Allan Kayll

"The type of a species," adds Isidorus St. Helaire, "never appears before our eyes but is perceived only by the mind." "Human types," writes Broca, "have no real existence, they are only abstract conceptions, ideals, which come from the comparison of ethnic varieties, and are composed of an ENSEMBLE of characters common to a certain degree among themselves."

the born criminal can be nothing more than an epileptic; criminality being a neurosis.

there are many persons of distinctly criminal instincts who are kept in the paths of honesty merely by circumstances