Quote from "A String of Pearls" (1856)

The insane asylum, surrounded by human love, is truly a spot of holiness, a hospital for the sick plants that shall someday be transplanted to bloom in the paradise of God.

Registered motifs in this quote:

  1. God's Kingdom, heaven
  2. To die and go to heaven

Keywords: Care, death, life after death

Comment: In 1855, Bakkehuset ('the house on the hill') became a hospice for mentally disabled children.