care; public health
Nightingale’s passionate commitment to statistics
was intimately related to her spirituality. God was a
god of order, who created the world and let it run by
law. We should not pray to be delivered from plague,
pestilence, and famine, but to learn how to intervene in nature to prevent such disasters. Nightingale
complained at length about how impractical the medieval mystics were. Spiritual retreats should equip
one for practical action in the world, into which one
returned refreshed…
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