The Freemason's Daughter: A Novel — page 116: what you’re looking at

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THE FREEMASONS DAUGHTER. 107 medical certificate duly signed, and the responsibility of the director sheltered by authority. Our readers will, perhaps, imagine that this is an overcharged picture ; many investigations have proved its truthfulness. Perhaps there is no system which more imperiously demands a thorough revisal than the madhouse system, especially where the establishment is ' private. It is a fearful thing to think that the certifi- cate of two boys, who have been just sufficiently primed to pass the college, should deprive a human being of liberty, and consign him to horrors of which the world has no conception, and to which the repose of the grave would be a blessing. COniiclooecl SS (SO