Wherever natural and spiritual good exist, there we shall behold those best fruits of charity, of which the vine and fig-tree are beautifully appropriate emblems. I trust that what I have advanced will be considered less as a personal boast than as an explanatory statement, suggested by recognised evils, and enhanced by candour and conviction. Although past conduct is the best guarantee for the future, yet it is by no means an infallible security; and it altogether ceases to be the test of any security, the moment boasting, pride, or self-confidence exclude a higher and better dependence. * * * * * THE END. * * * * * * * * * * DEAN AND MUNDAY, PRINTERS, THREADNEEDLE-STREET. * * * * * FOOTNOTES. {vi} For the present I shall defer the publication of these Tables. {xiii} Inferno, c. iii. 9. {xv} See page 211. {26} A Case and Observations being mislaid when printing, accounts for the error in the number of this observation. {5} See hereafter, Divisions of Insanity. {16} See Divisions of Insanity. See also No. 131. {18} See No. 71, 81, 88, 105, 145, 146, 175, 208, 339, 374, 375, 376, 379, 380. {20} See Essay on a Knowledge of the Human Mind, unfolding the universal principles of generalisation, where I shall show that these words are not mere figures of speech, but that they each express a truth which every fact in medicine demonstrates. {22} It is worthy of remark, that these are those who are always ailing, and their complaints correspond with their faulty state of mind. {27} See the cases mentioned in Mr. Harris’s and Mr. Balle’s affidavits,—in Allen v. Dutton. {28} See Dr. Birkbeck’s affidavit, in Allen _versus_ Dutton. {36} She knew me at York, when she was at the Retreat. {55} Inferno, c. iii. 9. {57} See No. 427. {80} See 395 and 396. {95} See Case No. 85. {96} I have hitherto had but one out of 600—and he had secreted a rope, and effected his purpose, the day after his arrival by pretending to retire to a place of convenience.—I confess I would rather not state this, as it may look like boasting; but so far from this, I am sure my feelings are only those of gratitude. A suicide of a most determined character was so delicately watched, that for six months he did not ascertain that he had any loss of liberty, or was in a place of this description, but merely with kind friends of his parents. {99a} This evil is prominently seen to result from all modes of charity that are not secret, or have not their origin or are not done in the spirit of kindness, as well as from all punishments that are too severe and unnecessarily degrading in their nature. {99b} See case No. 6, in the Appendix. {102} See Essay on Forbearance.