Suppose you find plague is conveyed by a flea upon a rat, and suppose you are dealing with a population who object to the taking away of life.
John Morley: “Suppose you find plague is conveyed by a flea upon a rat, and suppose you are dealing with a population who object to…”
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Morley illustrates the complexities of addressing plague transmission in a resistant population.
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But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.





