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~ Genius and Crime. If we regard narrowly
the lives of great criminals, we are often very
much startled by the extraordinary acutcness-lhe
profound calcula;ion-the patient, meditatve ener-
gy which they have employed upon the concep-
ton and execution of crime We feel inclined
to think that such intellectual power would have
commanded great distinction, worhily used and
guided; but we never find that these great crimi-
nails seem TO have been sensible of the opportunities
TO real emincnce which they have thrown away.
Often we observe that there has been before them
vistas into worldly greatness, which, by no un-
common prudence and exertion, would have con-
Quoted honest men, half as clever, to fame and
power; but, with strange obkquity of vision they
appear to have looked from these broad, clear
avenues, into some dark, tangled defle, in which,
by the subtest ingenuity, and through the most
besettng perils they may attain atast to the sue.
cess of fraud, or, the enjoyment of vice. In
crime once INDUCED, there is wonderful hscina-
tion-and the fascination is, not rarely, great in
proportion to the intellect OF the criminal There
is always hope of reform for a dull, unedueated


stolid man, led by accident or temptation into
guilt butgwhere man OF great ability, and high


ly educated, besots himseH into the intoxicaon of
dark and terrible excitements, takes impure de-
light in tortuous and Shiny ways, the good angel
abandons him forever. -' - Bulacer