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

  • Constable, H. Strickland (Henry Strickland), 1821-1909
Date:
1873
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Credit: Doctors, vaccination, and utilitarianism / by H. Strickland Constable. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and in consequence of all these negations, of all these imbecilities, of all these miserable weaknesses aided l)y circumstances and by an active and inge- nious brain he, like tbe hurricane, carries destruction wherever he goes. Foolish people gape and call him a great man. (_)ne short sentence wi’itten by a St. Paul or a St. John has exercised a ])ower over men compai-ed with which the maniacal automatic doings of legions of murderers, whether wholesale or retail, are nothino-. Sun warmth is the greatest material force known. Christian passion or soul warmth is the gi’eatest spiritual force known. Rascality means the absence of this force. “ The world knows nothing of its greatest men,’’ says the poet. It is the hurricanes, earthquakes, and deluges that are talked about. The glorious days of sunshine that fill the world with life pass unnoticed. ()f course I know that hurricanes, pestilences, famines, rasmanian devils,and human devils, are wanted in the world or they would n6t be in it. But that is not the question. Hurricanes clear the air. Pestilences teach men that they must suffer if they are filthy, vdcious, and idle, lasmanian devils keej) noxious reptiles under. Human devils have been instruments by which effeminate races of men have become replaced by superior ones, the standard of energy, viofour. and militant cajnicities, (qualities essential for all, whether - A kind of ferocious wild cat in Van Dieman’s Land.