A Plea for the Criminal / Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the / Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles / of Criminological and Reformatory Science

Man has two natures, the animal and the spiritual.

we should study the criminal and ask ourselves "what is he?" and "of what forces is he the product?"

Habitual homicides have a glassy, cold, immobile, sometimes sanguinary and dejected look; often an aquiline nose, or, in other words, a hooked one like a bird of prey, always large; the jaws are large, ears long, hair woolly, abundant and rich (dark); beard rare, canine teeth, very large; the lips are thin.