Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House
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They had to fall back coarsely on theterror of infection and death. They prescribed inoculations andoperations. Whatever part of a human being could be cut outwithout necessarily killing him they cut out; and he often died(unnecessarily of course) in consequence. From such trifles asuvulas and tonsils they went on to ovaries and appendices untilat last no one's inside was safe. They explained that the humanintestine was too long, and that nothing could make a child ofAdam healthy except short c...ircuiting the pylorus by cutting alength out of the lower intestine and fastening it directly tothe stomach. As their mechanist theory taught them that medicinewas the business of the chemist's laboratory, and surgery of thecarpenter's shop, and also that Science (by which they meanttheir practices) was so important that no consideration for theinterests of any individual creature, whether frog orphilosopher, much less the vulgar commonplaces of sentimentalethics, could weigh for a moment against the remotest off-chanceof an addition to the body of scientific knowledge, they operatedand vivisected and inoculated and lied on a stupendous scale, clamoring for and actually acquiring such legal powers over thebodies of their fellow-citizens as neither king, pope, norparliament dare ever have claimed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They had to fall back coarsely on theterror of infection and death. They prescribed inoculations andoperations. Whatever part of a human being could be cut outwithout necessarily killing him they cut out; and he often died(unnecessarily of course) in consequence. From such trifles asuvulas and tonsils they went on to ovaries and appendices untilat last no one's inside was safe. They explained that the humanintestine was too long, and that nothing could make a child ofAdam healthy except short c...ircuiting the pylorus by cutting alength out of the lower intestine and fastening it directly tothe stomach. As their mechanist theory taught them that medicinewas the business of the chemist's laboratory, and surgery of thecarpenter's shop, and also that Science (by which they meanttheir practices) was so important that no consideration for theinterests of any individual creature, whether frog orphilosopher, much less the vulgar commonplaces of sentimentalethics, could weigh for a moment against the remotest off-chanceof an addition to the body of scientific knowledge, they operatedand vivisected and inoculated and lied on a stupendous scale, clamoring for and actually acquiring such legal powers over thebodies of their fellow-citizens as neither king, pope, norparliament dare ever have claimed.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by George Bernard Shaw to read onlineMoreLess
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