paleonet Defn of a Curator

[Eduard Reinhardt <ereinhar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Definition of a "curator" from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1771.

CURATOR: Among civilians, a person regularly appointed to manage the 
affairs of minors, or persons mad, etc.  See LAW.

LAW: Curators are given, not only to minors, but in general to everyone 
who, either through defect of judgement, or unfitness of disposition, 
is incapable of rightly managing his own affairs.  Of the first sort, 
are idiots and furious persons.  Idiots are entirely deprived of the 
faculty of reason.  This distemper of the furious person does not 
conflict in the defect of reason, but in an overheated imagination, 
which obstructs the application of reason to the purposes of life. ...

Dr. Eduard G. Reinhardt
Assistant Professor
School of Geography and Geology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4K1
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