Let us believe not.

Yet, once strolling along through the crypt of the Church of the Escurial near Madrid, I could not repress the idea of a personal and physical resemblance between the effigies in marble and bronze looking down upon me whichever way I turned, to some of our contemporary public men and seeming to say: "My love to the President when you see him next," and "Don't forget to remember me kindly, please, to the chairmen of both your national committees!" IV In a world of sin, disease and death--death inevitable--what may man do to drive out sin and cure disease, to the end that, barring accident, old age shall set the limit on mortal life?
The quack doctor equally in ethics and in physics has played a leading part in human affairs.

Only within a relatively brief period has science made serious progress toward discovery.

Though Nature has perhaps an antidote for all her poisons many of them continue to defy approach.
They lie concealed, leaving the astutest to grope in the dark.
That which is true of material things is truer yet of spiritual things.
The ideal about which we hear so much, is as unattained as the fabled bag of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Nor is the doctrine of perfectability anywhere one with itself.