Robert Chambers Quote

Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation will be indicated by the nearness or the distance of its actual practice from this perfect idea.


p. 17 - Sanitary Economy (1850)


Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation...

Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation...

Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation...

Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation...