The Female Malady 42 and having once experienced the possibility of doing and of this, earning peace, self-applause, and the approbation of all around, sound sleep, and it may»be some small remuneration, a difficulty is found in restraining their eagerness, and moderating their exertions 65 Browne's community of the mad ventional in its Not only is there a tioningly accepted by eager and and desires many of its is and harmonious, as con- docile sexual division of labor as it is humble in its aspirations clear hierarchy, but also grateful workers it is No wonder unquesthat for supporters, the asylum seemed an experiment worth emu- lating in the society at large Indeed, a journalist reviewing the plans for Colney Hatch social relevance in the Westminster Looking back on what we have for the insane, written, the thought occurs forcibly what appears to us, that while describing asylum Review explicitly pointed to the of the proposed community: we have to us the really described the of residence for the sane With are gregarious and those have all tages who most eligible eligible kind human drudgery minimised, and human comfort maximised, with arrangements who most suited equally to those are hermit-like in their habits, we the advantages of the old monasteries without their disadvan- 66 And surveying the progress that had been made by 1866, Professor G E Paget confidently declared that the English lunatic asylum was "the most blessed manifestation of true civilization that the world can present." 67 Great moments of social change are brought about through the efforts of many, but succeed in part because of their identification with specific leaders whose careers come to symbolize the aspirations of the age For was John Conolly (1794In the words of the medical historians Richard Hunter Victorian psychiatry, this exemplary figure 1866) (fig 10) and Ida Macalpine, "It was of the insane, one of the found its Conolly that the reform of the treatment of Victorian philanthropy, spokesman, the non-restraint movement county magistrates guide." 68 in finest flowerings It planning and directing was Conolly who proved its champion, and institutions their management of a large use of force As the Edinburgh that the asylum could be carried out without the such