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Quotation from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
“Cholera Doctors, hired to dive into black dens of infection and despair”
Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. II, Model Prisons (Project Gutenberg #1140)
Carlyle sets the cholera doctors of 1849, risking their lives for pay, beside Howard to argue that ordinary human virtue is abundant.
Citation: "Cholera Doctors, hired to dive into black dens of infection and despair" — Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. II, Model Prisons (Project Gutenberg #1140). (id latter-day-pamphlets-q6)
