| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: of volumes has been published in favour of criminal lunatic
asylums. A few voices here and there were heard in opposition or
reserve, but these have almost entirely ceased.
Criminal lunatic asylums were adopted in England as early as 1786.
In 1815 Bethlehem Hospital was appropriated to criminal lunatics,
and the Broadmoor Asylum was founded in 1863. Similar asylums
exist at Dundrum in Ireland (1850), at Perth in Scotland (1858),
at New York (1874), and in Canada (1877).
On the continent of Europe there is not to this day a regular
asylum for mad criminals, though France, after an
experiment in treating condemned madmen at Bictre, opened a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: some fair woman unknown to me, but who yet draws breath beneath
this same moon that shines on me tonight? Tell me how am I to
know?' And she clasped her hands and stretched them out towards
him and looked appealingly into his face.
'Nyleptha,' answered Sir Henry, adopting the Zu-Vendi way of
speech; 'I have told thee that I love thee; how am I to tell
thee how much I love thee? Is there then a measure for love?
Yet will I try. I say not that I have never looked upon another
woman with favour, but this I say that I love thee with all my
life and with all my strength; that I love thee now and shall
love thee till I grow cold in death, ay, and as I believe beyond
Allan Quatermain |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: soul?
Paying a visit to Pistias,[11] the corselet maker, when that artist
showed him some exquisite samples of his work, Socrates exclaimed:
[11] Cf. Athen. iv. 20, where the same artist is referred to
apparently as {Piston}, and for the type of person see the
"Portrait of a Tailor" by Moroni in the National Gallery--see
"Handbook," Edw. T. Cook, p. 152.
By Hera! a pretty invention this, Pistias, by which you contrive that
the corselet should cover the parts of the person which need
protection, and at the same time leave free play to the arms and
hands. . . . but tell me, Pistias (he added), why do you ask a higher
The Memorabilia |
