Examples from literature

• A child begotten in an intoxicated or depraved condition of a parent may be depraved itself in the same way, and is apt to be feeble-minded or idiotic. 
• Again the explanation is clear when it is stated that this branch of the family did not contain a single feeble-minded individual. 
• However, the so-called higher mental functions—logical memory, controlled association, and constructive imagination—are all poor in a feeble-minded person. 
• In another marriage of the same class both parents were feeble-minded and the children idiotic. 
• They should be treated as feeble-minded, not as criminals.Those who may have been made criminals by society, by their environment, must also be excepted.