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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... evil./ Budget paid into prisons to be reduced . 2 : 319-20 FN : From a table of mortality one cannot discover when A will die . So with A's other actions . Marriages [ are ] more regular than deaths . [ It ] seems [ that they ] are more ...
... evil may be the result of a social organization . 2 : 399-404 FN : Relations between the most opposite opinions . Com- promise always false . Governments should initiate reforms . Revolu- tions : their manner [ is ] the true test of the ...
... evil into original goodness ( see p 41 below ) . Discussing the regularity of statistics , Nightingale joked that marriage statistics showed greater regularity than Italians in paying their taxes ( 1 : 277 ) ( see p 62 below ) ...
... evil into “ original ” good . But if we work without the knowledge of these laws the best philanthropist of us all knows not but what he is doing harm instead of good . Take two or three examples of this , examples at once of laws ...
... evil is here ? How can we account for it but by supposing that there is a kingdom of evil : a devil - not a perfect God — tormenting all these wretched little inno- cents , who certainly could not help themselves being born into this ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |