Booth's Mental health

[Thomas Thorne]

JWB was neither a genius,insane or suffered from any significant mental illness.

I resist the modern tendency to declare horrible deeds I strongly deplore to be acts of madness. The careless throwing out of accusations of mental illness without rigorous examination of the facts reinforces our natural inclination to be smug about the correctness of our own beliefs. It also impedes our efforts to understand-which should not be confused with approval-the actions of people from societies whose beliefs were very different from our own.

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