Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift,and a house for fools and mad

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	Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift,and a house for fools and mad

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ae54cdce-0163-4ccc-bd68-9213e66ccb09/FB278DE3-68C4-4F2F-99D2-DD6370BD80D3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mindhacks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mindhacks.com/img/CFDB9DE1-6B71-499B-B543-3D3D44AB8B4D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html">St Patrick's in Dublin is the oldest psychiatric hospital in Ireland. It was <A href="http://www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/155/11/1599">founded</A> by the author of <I>Gulliver's Travels</I>, Jonathan Swift, who left his money after his death in 1745 "To build a house for fools and mad".</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" set="yes">Swift</A> was most famous for his satire and it is no surprise that his founding of St Patrick's was a satirical nod towards his native Ireland.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html"><P>Famously, he described his gesture in a <A href="http://www.bartleby.com/219/0422.html">poem</A> entitled <I>On the Death of Dr Swift</I>:</p> <BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>He gave the little wealth he had 
To build a house for fools and mad, 
And showed by one satiric touch 
No nation needed it so much. </P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html">The hospital was intended as more than just parody, however, as Swift was also genuinely committed to the care of people with mental illness.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/togetherness/index.html">Swift had served as one of the Governors of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital" set="yes">Bethlem Hospital</A> in London and, when he became Dean of the city's cathedral, he began to realise the appalling conditions that mentally ill Dubliners had to endure.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FB278DE3-68C4-4F2F-99D2-DD6370BD80D3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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