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An idiot, Heber understood, was a person in whom intelligence had been arrested instinct acted, but not reason. A lunatic, on the other hand, was some one whose reason had gone awry the mechanism of the brain was injured. The lunatic was out of relation with his environment; the idiot had merely been delayed "en route".