Put a Chinaman into your hospital and he will get treated. You
may lie awake at night drawing up reasons for doing something
different with this disgusting Chinaman--who somehow is in
the world and is thrown into your care, your hospital, your
thought--but the machinery of your own being is so constructed
that if you take any other course with him than that which you
take with your own people, your institution will instantly lose
its meaning; you would not have the face to beg money for its
continuance in the following year. The logic of this, which, if
you like, is the logic of self-protection under the illusion of
self-sacrifice, is the logic which is at the bottom of all human
progress. The utility of hospitals is not to cure the sick. It
is to teach mercy. The veneration for hospitals is not because
they cure the sick, it is because they stand for love, and
responsibility.--JOHN JAY CHAPMAN.
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