History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabo — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

$To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine$

The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic par — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular sl — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing adventure: — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d'etat in 1793. Just as they ha — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

Many had suspected that the political disasters of the past few years had a hidden cause. The bloodiness of the French m — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short. — Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychology; An Elementary Text-Book

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

As Mollie said to Dailey in the 1890s: "I am told that there are five other Mollie Fanchers, who together, make the whol — Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery

The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in — Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery

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