Note 135 — Chapter III · EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ASYLUMS—FOUNDATION OF THE YORK RETREAT.
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"If it be true that oppression makes a wise man mad, is it to be supposed that stripes and insults and injuries, for which the receiver knows no cause, are calculated to make a mad man wise? or would they not exasperate his disease and excite his resentment" ("Description of the Retreat," 1813, p. 144).