The Culture of Murder

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(From Grand Forks Daily Herald, December 10, 1888.)

The Culture of Murder.

 

How Impulsive Organisms Are Prepared to Do Dark Deeds.

 

No fact is more patent to science than the direct effect of influences exerted through the medium of the senses upon the brain—that particular part we of the organism whose function we call “mind.” Darwin, Ruskin and all the great students of development have labored to bring this fact within the cognizance of the general thinking public. That they have failed is only too painfully evidenced by the persistence and surprising ingenuity of the practice of cultivating homicidal propensities, and collatorally murder, by a refined use of the art of mural decoration....

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