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34. No doubt this definition of idiots and the distinction from imbeciles, feeble minded persons and moral imbeciles is not absolutely binding upon us. All the same this Act furnishes a clue to the underlying distinction and is a good guide to us. lurthormore, this classification and distinction is in perfect accord with medical books of high authority. In Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence, Vol. 1 (5th Edn. at p. 797) it ia stated:

Idiocy is the dementia naturlis of lawyers The term 'idiot' is applied to one who from original defect has never had mental power. Idiocy differs from the other states of insanity in the fact that it is marked by congenital defloieny of the mental faculties. There is not here a perversion, or a loss of what has once been acquired, but a state, from defective structure of the brain, the individual has never been able to acquire any degree of intellectual power to fit him for his social position. It commences with life and continues through it, although idiots are said rarely to live beyond the age of 30.