Revolt was blazing in me.
As I went away I looked up at the mediaeval castellated gateway of the place, and thought how perfectly the architecture suited the spirit of the institution.

The whole thing belongs to the middle ages, and not to our modern life.

Fancy having both prison and hospital side by side; indeed a hospital even in the prison; torture and lovingkindness; punishment and pity under the same roof.

What a blank contradiction and stupidity.

Will civilisation never reach humane ideals?
Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold for them no temptation?
Did Jesus suffer in vain?
* * * * * Oscar Wilde was committed on the 19th of April; a "true bill" was found against him by the grand jury on the 24th; and, as the case was put down for trial at the Old Bailey almost immediately, a postponement was asked for till the May sessions, on the ground first that the defence had not had time to prepare their case and further, that in the state of popular feeling at the moment, Mr.Wilde would not get a fair and impartial trial.