The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr

Author:Michael McGirr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2009-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between the Deity and the Drains. As one turns over these singular pages, one has the impression that Miss Nightingale has got the Almighty too into her clutches and that, if He is not careful, she will kill Him with overwork.

In 1864, Nightingale wrote a ‘Note on the Aboriginal Races of Australia’ to be delivered as a paper at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held in York that year. Heaven only knows how and why she got involved in this discussion, although her attitude shows her signature sharpness. She was never afraid to have a point of view:

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