A national health policy / by Harry Roberts.

  • Roberts, Harry, 1871-1946.
Date:
1923
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A national health policy / by Harry Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    '‘The great cruelty of the English lies in permitting evil rather than in doing itT—Muralt, “ Lettres sur les Anglais T “ There is nothing really offensive in honesty of purpose provided that it he decently clothed in a certain degree of whimsicalityT—Austin Hopkinson. “ In place of ruthless self-assertion, social progress demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside or treading down all competitors, it requires that the indivi¬ dual shall not merely respect, hut shall help, his fellows ; its interest is directed not so much to the survival of the fittest as to the fitting of as many as possible to survive. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. It demands that each man who enters into the enjoyment of the advan¬ tages of a polity shall he mindful of his debt to those who have laboriously constructed it, and shall take heed that no act of his weakens the fabric in which he has been permitted to live. . . . “ . . . Most men are agreed that the proportion of good and evil in life may be sensibly affected by human action. . . . So far as we possess a power of bettering things, it is our paramount duty to use it and to train all our intellect and energy to this supreme service of our kind.’'— T. H. Huxley. “ Sanitary reform, that phrase so little understood, includes most of the civilising influences of humanity,”— Benjamin Disraeli. If there be a saving way at all, it is obviously this : substitute health and happiness for wealth as a world ideal; and translate that new ideal into action by educa¬ tion from babyhood up.”—John Galsworthy.