Borderland
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Quite a number of different designations have been found for these persons. Maudsley and Ball call them ' Borderland dwellers ' that is to say, dwellers on the borderland between reason and pronounced madness. Magnan gives to them the name of 'higher degenerates' (degeneres superieurs), and Lombroso speaks of 'mattoids' (from matto, the Italian for insane), and ' graphomaniacs,' under which he classifies those semi-insane persons who feel a strong impulse to write. In spite, however, of this variety of nomenclature, it is a question simply of one single species of individuals, who betray their fellowship by the similarity of their mental physiognomy.
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