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  • 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.

    - (Giles) Lytton Strachey
      EminentVictorians,'Florence Nightingale'.

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