Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Law

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: Union publishing company Subjects: Crime Criminals Capital punishment Social Science / Criminology Social Science / Penology True Crime / Murder / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. ORGANS OF THE BRAIX AND THEIR FUNCTION. Life is an activity manifested upon the corporeal plane of action only through an organized body, composed of organized and inorganized matter. This organization becomes more and more perfect and more complicated as we ascend in the scale of creation. From the lowest form of the sea-mosses to the most beautiful flowers of our garden, and from the creeping worm of the dust beneath our feet on up to the human mind, where the most perfect and most powerful manifestations of life force in the universe exist. Whenever we find that activity called life, we find an organization through which it operates. In the lowest forms of the grasses and mosses, life is scarcely apparer for the reason that their organs are few, and mostly single, through which it acts. As we ascend the scale of development in our observations among plants, we find an increase of organs, also refinement in texture, and a greater activity of life. So in the animal creation. In some of the lowest forms of animals, a single organ of vitality exists through which life is manifest. Here the life phenomena are very short in duration, but as we trace this force in its progressive development through the various species and phases of animal creation, we find an in crease of organs, a greater complication and combination of principles through which life is manifested upon the physical plane of action. In the human o...