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“All these prejudices, abominations and foul living conditions were necessary, since in the course of time they would be converted into something useful, like manure into fertile soil. There was nothing good in this world that did not contain some abomination in its earliest beginnings.”

“Ragin concluded that It was an immoral institution, highly injurious to the health of its patients. In his opinion it would be best to discharge the patients and close the hospital. But, he reasoned, will-power alone was not sufficient to achieve this… Therefore one should wait until it disappeared of its own accord. Besides, if people opened a hospital and tolerated it, that could only mean they needed it.”

ولولا الآلام لأصبحت فارغة تماماً كحياة الأميبا ..

وليس هناك في الدنيا شيء طيب إلا وكان فيه شيء حقير في أصله