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Excerpt from A Polemical Remonstrance Against the Project of Creating the New Office of Surgeon-General in the Navy of the United States
If there be serious exigency for reform, we ought to be wary Of the means suggested to produce it. Any crude or inefficient scheme would not leave affairs as they were, but enhance their inconvenience by failure. The medical officers of the navy may be brought to a realization of these axioms, by what I deem the ill-judged course some of them have been pursuing and are still following up, in relation to the affair which has called forth this remonstrance. There is, in my opinion, a want of the spirit of generalization in the estimate such make of the nature, extent and inseparable difficulties of public service. The gubernatorial charge of the naval service is no easy one, nor one of unity. Diverse and distracting views are continually presented, and the Secretary of the Navy who assumes that governing charge with the desire, or wish, or intention to please every one, must soon see the pith and realize in himself that beautiful fable of Phae'
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