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Each of us is a Thought in the Mind of God Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislature (1843) Dorothea Dix note: Our word for 'almshouse' is 'homeless shelter'. Gentlemen,--I respectfully ask to present this Memorial, believing that the cause, which actuates to and sanctions so unusual a movement, presents no equivocal claim to public consideration and sympathy. . . About two years since leisure afforded opportunity and duty prompted me to visit several prisons and almshouses in the vicinity of this metropolis. I found, near Boston, in the jails and asylums for the poor, a numerous class brought into unsuitable connection with criminals and the general mass of paupers. I refer to idiots and insane persons, dwelling in circumstances not only adverse to their own physical and moral improvement, but productive of extreme disadvantages to all other persons brought into association with them. I applied myself diligently to trace the causes of these evils, and sought to supply remedies. As one obstacle was surmounted, fresh difficulties appeared. Every new investigation has given depth to the conviction that it is only by decided, prompt, and vigorous legislation the evils to which I refer, and which I shall proceed more fully to illustrate, can be remedied. I shall be obliged to speak with great plainness, and to reveal many things revolting to the taste, and from which my woman's nature shrinks with peculiar sensitiveness. But truth is the highest consideration. I tell what I have seen--painful and shocking as the details often are--that from them you may feel more deeply the imperative obligation which lies upon you to prevent the possibility of a repetition or continuance of such outrages upon humanity. . . . I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane, and idiotic men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the most unconcerned would start with real horror; of beings wretched in our prisons, and more wretched in our almshouses. . . . I must confine myself to few examples, but am ready to furnish other and more complete details, if required. If my pictures are displeasing, coarse, and severe, my subjects, it must be recollected, offer no tranquil, refined, or composing features. The condition of human beings, reduced to the extremest states of degradation and misery cannot be exhibited in softened language, or adorn a polished page. I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. . . . It is the Commonwealth, not its integral parts, that is accountable for most of the abuses which have lately and do still exist. I repeat it, it is defective legislation which perpetuates and multiplies these abuses. In illustration of my subject, I offer the following extracts from my Note-book and Journal:-- Springfield. In the jail, one lunatic woman, furiously mad, a State pauper, improperly situated, both in regard to the prisoners, the keepers, and herself. It is a case of extreme self-forgetfulness and oblivion to all the decencies of life, to describe which would be to repeat only the grossest scenes. She is much worse since leaving Worcester. In the almshouse of the same town is a woman apparently only needing judicious care, and some well-chosen employment, to make it unnecessary to confine her in solitude, in a dreary unfurnished room. Her appeals for employment and companionship are most touching, but the mistress replied she had no time to attend to her. . . . Lincoln. A woman in a cage. Medford. One idiotic subject chained, and one in a close stall for seventeen years. Pepperell. One often doubly chained, hand and foot; another violent; several peaceable now. Brookfield. One man caged, comfortable. Granville. One often closely confined; now losing the use of his limbs from want of exercise. Charlemont. One man caged. Savoy. One man caged. Lenox. Two in the jail, against whose unfit condition there the jailer protests. Dedham. The insane disadvantageously placed in the jail. In the almshouse, two females in stalls, situated in the main building; lie in wooden bunks filled with straw; always shut up. One of these subjects is supposed curable. The overseers of the poor have declined giving her a trial at the hospital, as I was informed, on account of expense... Besides the above, I have seen many who, part of the year, are chained or caged. The use of cages all but universal. Hardly a town but can refer to some not distant period of using them; chains are less common; negligences frequent; wilful abuse less frequent than sufferings proceeding from ignorance, or want of consideration. I encountered during the last three months many poor creatu Day 715 - Day 350 “The world's on fire and It's more than I can handle. I'll tap into the water, Try and bring my share… World On Fire, Sarah Mclachlan, Afterglow Sarah talked a lot about this song at her concert in November. I’d always loved this song and made some assumptions about what the song was about. Turned out I was right for a change! Sarah talked about watching what was happening around the world and about going around the world to help, and then began talking about doing good in the world. Had I been intoxicated or in a particularly forward mood I probably would have jumped up and yelled “Testify Sarah! Testify!” because what she talked about was exactly how I try to live my life. I try to do good for others and help when I can… I want the people of the world to live off of love and not fear… I want the wars to end, the greed to cease, and all of the hate, bitterness and anger to vanish… do I hope for too much? Probably… but I still try. *** Artist Notes *** Setting the world on fire… Lyrics: Hearts are worn in these dark ages You're not alone in this story's pages The light has fallen amongst the living and the dying And I'll try to hold it in, yeah I'll try to hold it in The world's on fire and It's more than I can handle I'll tap into the water (Try and bring my share) I try to bring more More than I can handle (Bring it to the table) Bring what I am able I watch the heavens but I find no calling Something I can do to change what's coming Stay close to me while the sky is falling Don't wanna be left alone, don't wanna be alone The world's on fire and It's more than I can handle I'll tap into the water (Try and bring my share) I try to bring more More than I can handle (Bring it to the table) Bring what I am able Hearts break, hearts mend Love still hurts Visions clash, planes crash Still there's talk of Saving souls, still the cold Is closing in on us We part the veil on our killer sun Stray from the straight line on this short run The more we take, the less we become The fortune of one that means less for some Similar posts: watch me bleed mp3 atomic wrist watches buy watch movies online new diesel watches armitron watch digital watch phone booth online free solar atomic chronograph watch citizen watches official website watch what not to wear online watch virginia tech football online Category: None | TB(0) | CO(0) |
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