0 without an ordinary level of intelligence, or unable to act or think in an intelligent way
A child begotten in an intoxicated or depraved condition of a parent may be depraved itself in the same way, and is apt to be feeble-minded or idiotic.
Again the explanation is clear when it is stated that this branch of the family did not contain a single feeble-minded individual.
However, the so-called higher mental functions—logical memory, controlled association, and constructive imagination—are all poor in a feeble-minded person.
In another marriage of the same class both parents were feeble-minded and the children idiotic.
They should be treated as feeble-minded, not as criminals. Those who may have been made criminals by society, by their environment, must also be excepted.
The evidence was also felt to reveal the likelihood of a higher than normal birth rate amongst the feeble-minded.
These included older people, 'problem families', delinquents, psychotics, and the 'feeble-minded' who were variously retired, segregated, punished, and institutionalised.
Society could not prevent the uninoculated from dying of smallpox, but it could care for those who were too feeble-minded to care for themselves.
