 30 Jun 2005 @ 19:59
Mary Everest Boole wrote the following thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on "Epidemics." It made up a small section of a chapter called "The Body of Humanity" in her book "Symbolical Methods of Study" published in England in 1884:
"Epidemic disease appears at first sight a dividing power, a source of selfishness; and, in detail, so it practically is. We do, we must, keep ourselves and our children out of the way of needless infection. Yet Mr. Maurice [a British preacher] has remarked that pestilence is a witness to and revealer of the Unity of Humanity; for infection, bred among the neglected, ill-housed poor, invades the homes of the rich and forces them to remember the bond that binds all classes together, and to own that the truest safety lies not in selfish self-protection from infection." More >
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