Samuel Tuke; his life, work, and thoughts / edited by Charles Tylor.

Date:
1900
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Credit: Samuel Tuke; his life, work, and thoughts / edited by Charles Tylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that day the Friends determined to establish an institu- tion in which there should be no secrecy. William Tube was the great founder of the new Asylum. About the same time a change was commencing in Paris. While the tree of liberty was shedding fast its blood-red fruit in one corner of the city, a good and courageous man, Pinel, [in another corner] was acting upon a determination to liberate some lunatics from the wretched prisons in which they had been for years in confinement.” 1 In 1814 Henry Tube died, Eighth Month nth, at the age of fifty-nine. His illness had been pain- ful, but he was surrounded by a group of relations devoted to his comfort, and was supported by an humble, child-like trust in the unmerited mercy of God. “ If I die,” he said the evening before his decease, “ I die as I have lived, in the faith and hope of a Christian ; I am perfectly resigned to the will of my Heavenly Father.” Watching beside his father's dying bed, Samuel Tuke writes : “ The clock struck three,—I had still a father. The light arose and seemed to show me still more strongly the calamity which awaited me. All the circumstances of that loss rushed upon my mind. Such a father—such a friend—and such a partner, few persons had to lose. The world looked to me as a frightful wilderness, in which I could not walk without his assistance and counsel.” In the entry in his diary recording the funeral, S. T. says : “The day was altogether most memorable ; may its impressions ever be present with us !” 1 Memoir of Dr. Conolly, by Sir James Clark, 1869, p. 48.
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