Crazy people never act together, says the superintendent
of a large asylum for the insane, quoted in _The Medical
Times_. “If one inmate attacks an attendant, as sometimes
happens, the others would look upon it as no affair of theirs
and simply watch it out. The moment we discovered two or more
inmates working together we would know they were on the road to
recovery.” It is on this account that there are so few concerted
mutinies in insane asylums; so that the number of attendants
does not have to be large.
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=Conclusion, A Reasonable=--See ETHICAL PRINCIPLE.