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"I have had daily dealings with a man I thought was doing nothing but evil. I still think you were doing evil, even though you were serving truth. You have convinced me that my beliefs were dreams—but not that dreaming is worse than waking up. You brutally broke the dreams of the humble, sneered at the weak hopes of the bereaved. You seem cruel and inhuman to me, just as [Jamie] Haggis seemed cruel and inhuman to you. You are a good man by your own code, but so was Haggis a good man by his code. He did not pretend to believe in salvation by good works any more than you pretended to believe in the Ten Commandments. He was good to individuals, but the crowd suffered, while you are good to the crowd and an individual suffered. But after all, you also are only an individual.
Day after day, I have itched and tingled to kill you, held back only by the superstition you have destroyed tonight! Day after day, you have been battering down the scruples which alone defended you from death! You wise thinker, you wary reasoner, you
fool! It would be better for you tonight if I still believed in God and his commandment against murder!"
Angus, When Doctors Agree

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