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a sprinkle of the Roja compound —
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Dr. Roja Brillantine and Shampoo
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Wretched be science, if in it the good deed is mingled with the evil... Was it because the woman has been drawn away from her child, so that he found no one at his side to stir his stagnant feelings...? How ill, then, the mother has done!...
And now, come, let us strip the world of its humane ones — of its angels of mercy, of those who were kneaded of a clay whose name is sacrifice... Come, strip the world of them: what then remains to it?... Take away Pasteur, and Pasteur's institute and mercy and goodness... Take away Nightingale, her lamp and her sacrifice... Take away Lincoln, dying for the liberation of the slaves... Take away the discoverers of the protective serum — one of them trying it on his own body, or plunging the needle, the needle of which he knows not whether it carries death or life, into the body of his own child, to test it and to offer the world a certain cure... Oh, how magnificent is man when he grows great! And how magnificent is humanity — for where it exists, there exist with it sacrifice and mercy and the deepest signs of self-devotion!
Then there are these gathered efforts — these societies: the societies for the lepers, and the blind, and the foundlings, and the orphans, and the hospitals, to which flowers and newspapers are sent by unknown hands. Strip the world of these touches of mercy, and see what remains to it: commerce...? matter...? a destroying science...? How paltry the world would be!...
Madam, you may be a learned and great mother; but no greatness that is not built on foundations of humanity can be counted great! You may raise your child in a patriotic, courageous upbringing — but do not forget that the noblest thing a soldier does is to care for a wounded enemy! And you may prepare him to become a famous doctor, or a lawyer, or a politician — but remember to prepare him to be a doctor who is a human being, not a doctor-tradesman; a lawyer who is a human being, not a lawyer-usurer; and a politician who is a human being, not a politician and nothing more...
Have mercy on this society, madam, and deal gently with this world that is near to bursting — because science is marching far away from mercy!