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A Mummer’s Tale

CHAPTER IX
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It's expecting too much of me." "You believe then, doctor, that Chevalier was fully and entirely morally responsible ?" "Quite the contrary.

I am of opinion that he was not in the least responsible for his actions." "Well, then ?" "But I also consider that, in this respect, he differed in nowise from you, myself, and all other men.

My judicial colleagues distinguish between individual responsibilities.

They have procedures by which they recognize full responsibilities, and those which lack one or more fractional parts.

It is a remarkable fact, moreover, that in order to get a poor wretch condemned they always find him fully responsible.


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