Down to a late period, in the hospitals of St.Luke and Bedlam, long rows of the insane were chained to the walls of the corridors.

But Gardner at Lincoln, Donnelly at Hanwell, and a new school of practitioners in mental disease, took up the work of Tuke, and the victory in England was gained in practice as it had been previously gained in theory.
There need be no controversy regarding the comparative merits of these two benefactors of our race, Pinel and Tuke.

They clearly did their thinking and their work independently of each other, and thereby each strengthened the other and benefited mankind.

All that remains to be said is, that while France has paid high honours to Pinel, as to one who did much to free the world from one of its most cruel superstitions and to bring in a reign of humanity over a wide empire, England has as yet made no fitting commemoration of her great benefactor in this field.
York Minster holds many tombs of men, of whom some were blessings to their fellow-beings, while some were but "solemnly constituted impostors" and parasites upon the body politic; yet, to this hour, that great temple has received no consecration by a monument to the man who did more to alleviate human misery than any other who has ever entered it.
But the place of these two men in history is secure.

They stand with Grotius, Thomasius, and Beccaria--the men who in modern times have done most to prevent unmerited sorrow.