Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — Emotional Insanity. [ARTICLE]

Emotional Insanity.

“Emotional insanity” is now. a common plea of defendants in trials for murder. It means much the same as “justifiable wrath,” or “served ’im right,” but has a pleasanter sound in the ears of the ordinary.jUryman. is the homage the heart .renders to God for His goojness. Christian cheerfulness is the external manifestation of that homage.— Steele.