I have not the least doubt that the best doctors in all our present
schools of medicine, including the allopathic, will hail the broad
reform of Medical Freedom which I am here urging and which they will
readily see will be a great benefit to Humanity and to the whole
“Divine” Profession of Healing and will be the removal from it of
something which the verdict of History will undoubtedly record
as having been the greatest Ethical Disgrace on the whole Medical
Profession. And as the abolishment of compulsory religion removed
a great disgrace from the Clerical Profession in the past, so the
abolishment of compulsory medicine will remove a great disgrace from
the Medical Profession of to-day. And the doctors will doubtless, in
due time, regret that they were ever guilty of such a barbarism, as
much as modern Churchmen now regret the similar barbarous mistake of
their predecessors.