Doctors, vaccination, and utilitarianism / by H. Strickland Constable.

  • Constable, H. Strickland (Henry Strickland), 1821-1909
Date:
1873
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    to Mr. Brown, and perhaps also to Mr. Jones, but I am not at all sure about Mr. Robinson and thus hesitating, he ends l)_y leaving undone Avhathe ought to do, or bj doing what he ought not to do. Too much isolation on the other hand, of course, is a])t to produce mirrowness and torpidity of mind. After all, poor M. Comte was but a mouthpiece (a half crazy one 1 think most people will allow) of a narrow sect, the sect of Atheistic-Materialists, whose teaching is, that faith is folly, for what men believe in are lies; that hope is folly, for what they hope for is a delusion ; that worship is folly, for there is no being to worship ; that reverence is folly, for there is nothing in the universe higher than men for them to look up to; that there is no God, and that men die like dogs. This is the good tidings of great joy this sect brings to all people. Whilst there is only infinite j)ity for the poor Godless, hopeless propounders of these miserable doctrines, condemnation cannot be too strong, hatred cannot be too intense, and ridicule cannot be too bitter for the doctrines themselves, of which the one sole aim is, to cause spiritual death. A murderer only causes bodily death. These doctrines, if successful, would sweep away the progress of ages, and bring men back to be savages, ignorant of, or denying all meaning to the very words which indicate that progress. Happily, as yet, the sect has comparatively little infiuence. The members of it do not even, as a rule, bring up their own children in their degrading beliefs.