ABSTRACT
The morally weak-minded are persons whose mental development stopped short when it reached the altruistic sentiments. These higher attributes of human nature do not exist in them. Their memory and reasoning power may be up to the average, but their views are narrow and they do not concern themselves about their future. Youths suffering from moral deficiency are particularly impulsive of course all children act on impulse. Impulsive acts are common among the weak-minded from their lack of self-restraint. As a rule, the morally weak-minded is descended from parents, not themselves criminals, but neuropaths of some kind. The morally deficient child is a child who, by reason of arrested development of some part of his brain, displays at an early age a morbid defect of the moral disposition and higher altruistic qualities of the human race, associated frequently with vicious propensities on which punishment has no effect.
