Nor was this the worst: the indirect influence of the theological habit of thought and ecclesiastical prestige was displayed in the Edinburgh Review.

That great organ of opinion, not content with attacking Tuke, poured contempt upon his work, as well as on that of Pinel.

A few of Tuke's brother and sister Quakers seem to have been his only reliance; and in a letter regarding his efforts at that time he says, "All men seem to desert me."(383) (383) See D.H.Tuke, as above, p.

116-142, and 512; also the Edinburgh Review for April, 1803.
In this atmosphere of English conservative opposition or indifference the work could not grow rapidly.

As late as 1815, a member of Parliament stigmatized the insane asylums of England as the shame of the nation; and even as late as 1827, and in a few cases as late as 1850, there were revivals of the old absurdity and brutality.