Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.