“...for whatever his present intellectual and moral degradation may be, if, organically, he is neither an idiot nor a madman -- in which case he should be treated as a sick man rather than as a criminal -- if he is in full possession of his senses and of such intelligence as nature has granted him, his humanity, no matter how monstrous his deviations might be, nonetheless really exists. It exists as a lifelong potential capacity to rise to the awareness of his humanity, even if there should be little possibility for a radical change in the social conditions which have made him what he is.”