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A Book of Remarkable Criminals (Hardcover)
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The silent workings, and still more the explosions, of human
passion which bring to light the darker elements of man's nature
present to the philosophical observer considerations of intrinsic
interest; while to the jurist, the study of human nature and human
character with its infinite varieties, especially as affecting the
connection between motive and action, between irregular desire or
evil disposition and crime itself, is equally indispensable and
difficult. - Wills on Circumstantial Evidence. I REMEMBER my father
telling me that sitting up late one night talking with Tennyson,
the latter remarked that he had not kept such late hours since a
recent visit of Jowett. On that occasion the poet and the
philosopher had talked together well into the small hours of the
morning. My father asked Tennyson what was the subject of
conversation that had so engrossed them. "Murders," replied
Tennyson. It would have been interesting to have heard Tennyson and
Jowett discussing such a theme. The fact is a tribute to the
interest that crime has for many men of intellect and imagination.
Indeed, how could it be otherwise? Rob history and fiction of
crime, how tame and colourless would be the residue We who are
living and enduring in the presence of one of the greatest crimes
on record, must realise that trying as this period of the world's
history is to those who are passing through it, in the hands of
some great historian it may make very good reading for posterity.
Perhaps we may find some little consolation in this fact, like the
unhappy victims of famous freebooters such as Jack Sheppard or
Charley Peace.
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