Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Authentic and Faithful History of the Atrocious Murder of Celia Holloway: With an Accurate Account of All the Mysterious and Extraordinary Circumstances Which Led to the Discovery of Her Mangled Body in the Copse in the Lover's Walk, at Preston, Near Brighton; Including, Also, the Trial for the Murder
A man seldom becomes a criminal on a sudden it is by slow and almost im erceptible gradations, like the light of heaven itself: that guilt steals 'into the human heart, especially into one which: at ear y age, has been carefully and assiduously in structed in the paths of religion and perhaps In no life hitherto published will the truth of that statement be more completely verified and demonstrated, than in that of the individual who now stands committed for the murder of Celia Holloway. The mere exhi bition of crime, abstractedly speaking, even in its utmost atrocity, possesses no saluta in?uence on the human heart but it is from the dis lay of those great and preponderating causes, whio led to the commission of the crime, which, as it were, laid the seeds of it, and which became gradually matured, increasing daily in strength and virulence, that the moralist is able to adduce those valuable and whole some re?ections which act as a warning voice to the young and the dissipated, and which teach them that, after the first step into vice has been taken, the second soon follows, until at last the course becomes habitual, ending in infamy and ignominy. It may prove not the least interesting part of this history to attempt to fix upon the first cause which could have.
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