There are no longer any murders--none worth mentioning, at any rate.

Formerly, if you killed a man, it was possible that you were insane--but now, if you, having friends and money, kill a man, it is evidence that you are a lunatic.

In these days, too, if a person of good family and high social standing steals anything, they call it kleptomania, and send him to the lunatic asylum.

If a person of high standing squanders his fortune in dissipation, and closes his career with strychnine or a bullet, "Temporary Aberration" is what was the trouble with him.
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common?
Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?
And is it not so cheap, and so common, and often so trivial, that the reader smiles in derision when the newspaper mentions it?
And is it not curious to note how very often it wins acquittal for the prisoner?
Of late years it does not seem possible for a man to so conduct himself, before killing another man, as not to be manifestly insane.

If he talks about the stars, he is insane.