THE ROGUE'S IMPULSE.
Why -doss p, man with' a powerful brain tnru from honest paths and become an expert and daring burglar? This is one of tho problemfTwhich Dr. Albert; Wilson,'the brain 'specialist, is dealing with in-a volume which ho is now comniliiig and which is shortly to bo published. Dr. Wilson lias not drawn from fancy tho burglar-with a' wonderful brain. Ho is a living' expert "cracksman," , of so superior an; -intelligence that lie -has cutercd with great interest *into ' tho doctor's reseaiches, and has helped-him with many suggestions and vivid descriptions of tho impulses and "mind waves" which havo dominated him when planning a burglary or actually perpetrating it. • "Dr. Wilson's burglar," the man has been called; but he 'says ho will steal no inoro. The: cells of his brain, havo given him intuition, a keen sense of humour, oratorical powers,, and remarkable gifts of deductionand argument—all of which havo bcc.u cmployed not in tho interests of society but in the planning of midnight raids upon the mansions. of the wealthy. -Dr.' Wilson holds that his-burglar was tho victim of environment. His brain raised him high above the details of a meaningless, monotonous task; but lie could not expand in any. honest, useful direction. Theicforo ho bccamp ; a.burglar.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 11
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