hushed-up

Updated: May 26, 2025

The secret histories of households, where power should be safest in the hands of love; of hospitals, of schools, of orphanages, of poorhouses, of lunatic-asylums, of religious communities founded for GOD'S worship and man's pity, of institutions which assume the sacred title as well as the responsibilities of Home from the single guardian of some rural idiot to the great society which bears the blessed Name of Jesus have not each and all their dark stories, their hushed-up scandals, to prove how dire is the need of public opinion without, and of righteous care within, that what is well begun should be well continued?

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - We and the World, Part I: A Book for Boys