Abstract
The meditations of the philosopher cannot be uninfluenced, nor the heart of the philanthropist be unmoved, by the fact, which statistics prove, that there are at the present moment in England alone more than thirty thousand people who are deprived of all their active rights as human beings, and made, as far as possible, nonentities in the world. About twenty-six thousand of these are actually shut up in lunatic asylums; and of that number but very few are ever likely to leave their undesired abodes until they take their leave of life itself. It cannot, then, be unprofitable to endeavour, in one department of an extensive subject, to follow the gradual course of mental degeneration, and, by the exhibition of it, to justify the world's manner of dealing with the particular discords in nature's general harmony.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
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3 articles.
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