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I mean the Brutish, as in the case of the female who, they say,

would rip up women with child and eat the foetus; or the tastes

which are found among the savage tribes bordering on the Pontus,

some liking raw flesh, and some being cannibals, and some lending

one another their children to make feasts of; or what is said of

Phalaris. These are instances of Brutish states, caused in some

by disease or madness; take, for instance, the man who sacrificed

and ate his mother, or him who devoured the liver of his

fellow-servant. Instances again of those caused by disease or by

custom, would be, plucking out of hair, or eating one's nails, or

eating coals and earth.[13] Now wherever nature is really the

cause no one would think of calling men of Imperfect

Self-Control, ... nor, in like manner, such as are in a diseased

state through custom.