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We put up at Chapple's Castle Hotel, which is one of the class styled "commercial," and, though respectable, not such a one as the nobility and gentry usually frequent. I saw little difference in the accommodation, except that young women attended us instead of men, a pleasant change.
The impossibility of the success of Dr Chapple's remedy is very apparent from the insurmountable difficulties that would be experienced in determining with exactitude when a person was so degenerate in his own system as to make it positive that his prospective offspring would be born a criminal defective. Uncertainty, in this matter, reigns supreme.
The evil to which Dr Chapple's remedy would run, is one in which the moral sentiment of society would be so hardened that the reason for marriage would disappear from the knowledge of man. There is a great difference between this operation taking place from pathological reasons and its being performed simply as a deliverance from maternal responsibilities.
It has been well said that this is the age of the specialist. Everybody, if they wish to leave the world a better and happier place for their stay in it, should endeavour to adopt some speciality and make it their own. Chapple's speciality was being late for breakfast. He was late not once or twice, but every day.
Notwithstanding Dr Chapple's evidence, it is conclusive that his statement that criminals have the largest families, is entirely opposed to fact, indeed the exact reverse is the case. So far as the criminal is concerned, one may well ask whether he has not set himself to the useless task of threshing straw.
Chapple's tongue was out and performing mystic evolutions as he carved the letters. He felt inspired. He was beginning the A when he was brought to earth again by the voice of Brooke. "You are an idiot," said Brooke, complainingly. "That's my board, and now you've spoilt it." Spoilt it! Chapple liked that! Spoilt it, if you please, when he had done a beautiful piece of carving on it!
We put up at Chapple's Castle Hotel, which is one of the class styled "commercial," and, though respectable, not such a one as the nobility and gentry usually frequent. I saw little difference in the accommodation, except that young women attended us instead of men, a pleasant change.
As Dr Chapple's evidence entirely fails, the conclusions of expert criminologists must be accepted, viz., that criminals are characteristically unproductive, and that, among male criminals, the celibates are in a large majority. As, from these reasons, the vast majority of criminals cannot be the descendants of a criminal ancestry, obviously tubo-ligature will not meet the case.
My authority for declaring that there were five female ancestresses during the period reviewed as against one, stated to be the case by Dr Chapple, is Mr R. L. Dugdale, who made a close personal investigation of the life and records of the family. He himself collected the statistics that are given above and which are identical with those given by Dr Chapple's authority, Prof.
There must remain then but very little support for Dr Chapple's proposal when we discover firstly: that the criminal is very rarely a parent, and secondly: that in every case a taint is not transmitted from parent to child.
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