It included three core concepts: (1) that the universe is regulated by scientific laws created by a higher intelligence (2) that within all human beings there is a divine nature, an inner tendency towards goodness and (3) that according to the law of evolution, all human beings will eventually actualize their divine potential. Nightingale’s work in nursing and public health was based on a profound spiritual philosophy she had developed in her adolescence and early adulthood. Upon His carrying out such laws depends our responsibility” (Nightingale, Notes, 25). In her textbook Notes on Nursing she wrote: “God lays down certain physical laws. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Nightingale saw no conflict between science and spirituality. (Reproductions and analyses of these charts can be found in Cohen.) A pioneer in the use of statistics, she used her famous pie charts to show the reduction in the death rates from infectious diseases after a series of sanitary reforms had been implemented. This image is not only factual but highly symbolic, for she brought an enlightened vision to the healthcare at the British military hospital. Printed in the Winter 202 0 issue of Quest magazine.Ĭitation: Macrae, Janet, "Florence Nightingale’s Scientific Spirituality" Quest 108:1, pg 20-23įlorence Nightingale is best known as the Lady with the Lamp, who nursed British soldiers during the Crimean War (in which Britain and France fought against Russia, 1854–56).
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