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Washington -@. From: Washington viel 279A-WF-222936, 07/18/2005 statesmen and soft-hearted authors - and see once what a fine mess of hell they haf [sic] made of the world! Maybe now it is time for the scientist, who works and searches and never goes around howling how he loves everybody! Page 347 . - There may have been in the shadowy heart of Max Gottlieb a diabolic insensibility to divine pity, to suffering humankind; there may have been mere resentment of the doctors who considered his science of value only as it was handy to advertising their business of healing; there may have been the obscure and passionate and unscrupulous demand of genius for privacy. Certainly he who had lived to study the methods of immunizing mankind against disease had little interest in actually using these methods. He was like a fabulous painter, so contemptuous of popular taste that after a lifetime of creation he should destroy everything he has done, lest it be marred and mocked by the dull eyes of the crowd. Page 354 Be sure you do not let anything, not even your own good kind heart, spoil your experiment at St. Hubert. I do not make funnies about humanitarianism as I used to; sometimes now I t'ink [sic] the vulgar and contentious human race may yet have as much grace and good taste as the cats. But if this it to be, there must be knowledge. So many men, Martin, are kind and neighborly; so few have added to knowledge. You have the chance! You may be the man who ends all plague, and maybe old Max Gottlieb will have helped, too, hein [sic], maybe? You must not be just a good doctor at St. Hubert. You must pity, oh, so much the generation after generation yet to come that you can refuse to let yourself indulge in pity for the men you will see dying. Dying...It will be peace. Let nothing, neither beautiful pity nor fear of your own death, keep you from making this plague experiment complete. Page 373-374 He had seen the suffering of the plague and he had (though he still resisted) been tempted to forget experimentation, to give up the possible saving of millions for the immediate saving of thousands.