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Modifications of the malady are seen allied with genius.

The biographies of Cowper, Burns, Byron, Johnson, Pope, and Haydon establish that the most exalted intellectual conditions do not escape unscathed.
'In early childhood, this form of mental disturbance may, in many cases, be detected.

To its existence is often to be traced the motiveless crimes of the young.' No one can compare this passage of Dr.Forbes Winslow with the incidents we have already cited as occurring in that fatal period before the separation of Lord and Lady Byron, and not feel that the hapless young wife was indeed struggling with those inflexible natural laws, which, at some stages of retribution, involve in their awful sweep the guilty with the innocent.

She longed to save; but he was gone past redemption.
Alcoholic stimulants and licentious excesses, without doubt, had produced those unseen changes in the brain, of which Dr.Forbes Winslow speaks; and the results were terrible in proportion to the peculiar fineness and delicacy of the organism deranged.
Alas! the history of Lady Byron is the history of too many women in every rank of life who are called, in agonies of perplexity and fear, to watch that gradual process by which physical excesses change the organism of the brain, till slow, creeping, moral insanity comes on.