In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

  • -- Virginia Eshelman Johnson 和弗吉尼亚·伊夏尔曼·约翰逊

在一个什么都不知道的领域,医学不得不借鉴社会知识。

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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

监管一切是糟糕的政策……在那里,事情可以更好地自我调节,通过私人努力可以得到更好的促进;但是,不去管那些只能通过干预社会权力来推动的事情,同样是糟糕的政策。

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

政治意识形态是有形的现实这一事实并不能证明其至关重要的必要性质。黑死病是一个非常强大的社会现实,但没有人会认为它是必不可少的。