Personality and success / by J. Millott Severn.

  • Severn, J. Millott (Joseph Millott), 1860-1942.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1940]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Personality and success / by J. Millott Severn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into criminal personalities, and so become a danger to society, and an expense to the state. Anyone having these faculties in excess should make efforts to restrain them, instead of enhancing their develop¬ ment by further indulgence in conditions which gratify their exercise. Approbative Murderers. The excessive approbation of some individuals is such that if this faculty cannot be gratified by legitimate means, they resort to unlawful, despicable conduct. Such people seem not to be able to live unless in the limelight of publicity. I once wrote an article on Approbative Murderers and Criminals, and there are many of them. This class fails to get the approbation they desire in the ordinary way, and being criminally inclined, are tempted to do horribly drastic things, almost solely to get talked about. They are a menace to the public, and the best way to lessen these fearful crimes would be to suppress, as far as consistent, all publicity of such cases. Some approbative murderers may have small Secretiveness, and make little attempt to hide their crime. They more generally than not have small heads, with a corresponding limitation of intelligence. They are really irresponsible—some of them may be accounted mental deficients, and should be taken