must carry him from the battlefield, where he may
have fought even more valiantly than ourselves, we need not forget or
neglect him. The duty is all the more imperative that we care for him,
and in such a manner that he may, if possible, be restored. Simple
sequestration of the insane man is an outrage upon him and upon our
humanity. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye
even so to them," is the divine precept, which, if we follow it as
we ought, will lead us to search for our fallen comrades in the
alms-houses and penal institutions and reformatories, and sometimes in
the outhouses or cellars of private homes, to our shame, where errors
of judgment or cruelty have placed them, and to transfer them to
places of larger liberty and hopes of happiness and recovery. The
chronic insane are entitled to our care, not to our neglect, and to
all the comforts they earned while battling with us, when in their
best mental estate, for their common welfare and ours.

Almshouses and neglected outhouses are not proper places for them.
They are entitled to our protection and to be so cared for, if we
cannot cure them, as that they may not do those things, to their own
harm or the harm of the race, which they would not do if they were
sound in mind. Society must be protected against the spread of
hereditary insanity, hence such kindly surveillance, coupled with the
largest possible liberty, should be exercised over them as will save
posterity, so far as practicable, from the entailment of a heritage
more fatal than cancer or consumption.

The insane man is a changed man, and his life is more or less
delusional. In view of this fact, we should endeavor always to so
surround him that his environments may not augment the morbid change
in him and intensify his perverted, delusioned character.

Realizing the fact that mind in insanity is rather perverted than
lost, we should so deport ourselves toward the victims of this disease
as in no wise to intensify or augment the malady, but always, if
possible, so as to ameliorate or remove it.

Realizing that the insane man in his best estate may have walked the
earth a king, and in this free country of ours have been an honored
sovereign weighted with the welfare of his people, and contributing of
his substance toward our charities, we should, with unstinting hand,
cater to his comfort when this affliction comes upon him.

We should give him a home worthy of our own sovereign