The physician hopes to abolish the devil by sanitation.

We have our Utopias.

Despite levity, the present writer thinks that such hopes are among the most useful things the earth possesses.
A normal man in the full tide of his activities finds that a world-machinery could logically be built up by his profession.

At least in the heyday of his working hours his vocation satisfies his heart.

So he wants the entire human race to taste that satisfaction.