Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature: Collected Works of Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how the laws of God’s world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported. Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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... God was the all - good Creator who made and ran the world by laws , which human beings can ascertain by rigorous ... God's " co - workers . ” Ongoing research is required , for human interventions , however well intentioned , may ...
... God that mankind , ignorant mankind , can have an eternal or infinite action at his own caprice ( how unjust if it were so ) . God alone sets the limits , that is , the laws . We act within His laws , under His laws , and also by His ...
... God's ways to humankind , and our duty to respond actively in the social world . The essay has also the merit of being lively , yet without invective or sarcasm ; it is earnest without being wearisome . Nightin- gale evidently began the ...
... God , in teaching us by these results the laws by which our moral progress is to be attained , or rather explaining the road we must take if we are to discover the laws of God's government of His moral world . I had pleased myself with ...
... God's moral government ( His theodike ) . These are the details of His “ vast scheme of universal order . " For it ... God . 1. The foundling hospital is the parent of immorality ( 1 : 380-85 ) ; 2. Indiscriminate dole - giving , from ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |