Note 127 — Chapter III · EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ASYLUMS—FOUNDATION OF THE YORK RETREAT.

"What strenuous efforts fruitlessly combined to accomplish, a little volume has at once achieved. I hardly need name Mr. Samuel Tuke's account of the Retreat. Mr. Tuke's work, operating on a suspicious and irritable mind, produced the letters signed 'Evigilator;' the public attention became aroused, doubts and surmises were started. Either confident in right, or daring in wrong, a general challenge was given; that challenge was answered, with what results it is needless to add" (vide "Papers respecting the York Lunatic Asylum," by S. W. Nicoll, Esq., 1816).