Hereditary insanity  

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"Did it date from so far back, from the harm women had done to his race, from the rancour laid up from male to male since the first deceptions at the bottom of the caverns."[1] --Jacques Lantier wondering why he desired to kill women he did not even know


"Mr. X., aged eighty, of high social standing, born of a family with hereditary taint."--case 2 in Psychopathia Sexualis

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