ID# 1947:
Mary Dendy letter to Karl Pearson, about definitions and confusing terms used to grade feeble-mindedness (12/5/1912)
Date:
1912
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6)
Source:
University College London, KP, 186

Mary Dendy letter to Karl Pearson, about definitions and confusing terms used to grade feeble-mindedness (12/5/1912)

impulses; these latter will often talk in a most canting way and will lay the blame of their wrong-doing on Satan. A class quite apart consists of those who are prone to cruelty. This may be an impulse to destructiveness grossly exaggerated. I t must always be remembered tha[sic] the Feeble-minded are not so sensitive to pain as normal people [sic] are not always aware of the pain they inflict. [end]

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