Among the head-hunters of Borneo it is indulged without the need of any moral claptrap, but civilised people cannot adequately enjoy the indulgence of their baser passions until they have cloaked them in a garment of lofty ethical sentiments. When people let loose sup on a murderer the savage impulses of the head-hunter, they feel neither savage nor wicked but believe themselves to be upholders of virtue and good citizenship.
Source: Interest in crime (written in Dec. 21, 1932 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975.
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