Why classical homeopathy is full of hatred?

[Julian Winston]

>At 2:32 PM -0400 4/14/04, Nanga wrote:

[snip]
Been thinking a lot about this.
First. You can't blame folks for being the products of their times.
We, as homeopaths, see a lot of it in the literature because we READ
the literature. Who else reads 100 year old books?
If you were to read some literature (both standard medical literature
and fiction as well) from that time frame (1880-1920) I'm sure you
would see similar references and racial stereotyping.
In the USA there was plenty of racial stereotyping through the 1950s
although it began to change slowly in the 60s.
I have a number of B&T catalogs and trade publications which
contained many racist jokes as "fill." I just look upon it as an
interesting commentary of the times.

Second. The politics of the time certainly played a part. During the
early days of Homeopathy in the USA (1850-60) many of the homeopaths
were supporters of the both women's suffrage (i.e., the right to
vote) and the freeing of the slaves. Hering, no matter what he might
have though about Islam (which I have heard nothing except the quote
from Nanga), held regular classes at his home to teach homeopathy and
medicine to student from Jamaica who could not get into medical
school because of their race.
Yet, as we approached the middle of the 1930s, the homeopaths, when
faced with the prospect of Social Security and "socialized Medicine"
became very conservative and many were supporters of the right wing
of the political spectrum.
Some, like John Henry Clarke were supporters of the British Fascist
Party and were quite anti-semitic.
Can I hold it against him? Not at this time I can't.
I have to separate his contributions to homeopathy from his personal
views. I would rather not do without Clarke's magnificent dictionary.

When looking at these issues we must separate that which is past,
from that which is present. I can overlook Kent making a racist or
sexist remark. I can't do anything about it and he died in 1916.
I cannot overlook someone, for example, on THIS list doing the same.

End of ramble.

JW