10 354 bringing them into peculiar contact with so
many human beings, and sometimes in
their least guarded hour, in interviews
very much more confidential than
those of physcian and patient; this
would seem to qualify them to know
something about those intricacies involved
in the question of moral responsibility; whether
in a given case, say, ^ the crime proceeded from
mania in the brain or rabbies rabies of the heart.
As to any differences among themselves
these clerical proficients might develop
on the witness- stand, these could hardly
be greater than the direct ^ professional practical contradictions
exchanged between the ^ remunerated medical
/ experts . as, essentially, advocates for
and against.
10 354 bringing them into peculiar contact with so
many human beings, and sometimes in
their least guarded hour, in interviews
very much more confidential than
those of physcian and patient; this
would seem to qualify them to know
something about those intricacies involved
in the question of moral responsibility; whether
in a given case, say, ^ the crime proceeded from
mania in the brain or rabbies rabies of the heart.
As to any differences among themselves
these clerical proficients might develop
on the witness- stand, these could hardly
be greater than the direct ^ professional practical contradictions
exchanged between the ^ remunerated medical
/ experts . as, essentially, advocates for
and against.

Transcribed by: Wyn Kelley