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Titel

Florence Nightingale

Ist Teil von

• American journal of public health (1971), 2010-09, Vol.100 (9), p.1586-1587

Ort / Verlag

Washington: American Public Health Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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• If the young girls of the "higher classes," who never commit a false step, whose justly earned reputations were never sullied even by the stain which the fruit of mere "knowledge of good and evil" leaves behind, were to speak, and say what are their thoughts employed upon, their thoughts, which alone are free, what would they say? . . . The actual life is passed in sympathy given and received for a dinner, a party, a piece of furniture, a house built or a garden laid out well, in devotion to your guests-a too real devotion, for it implies that of all your time-in schemes of schooling for the poor, which you follow up perhaps in an odd quarter of an hour, between luncheon and driving out in the carriage- broth and dripping are included in the plan-and the rest of your time goes in ordering the dinner, hunting for a governess for your children, and sending pheasants and apples to your poorer relations.