Volume 1

A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.

  • Mary Adelaide Nutting
Date:
1907-1912
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    Support carried on to an extent which made me suspect in it a feature of the greatest importance for the maintenance of life, the preservation of each species, and its further evolution.” He quotes another Russian scholar, Professor Kessler of St. Petersburg, who in 1880 lectured on this subject and pointed out that “beside the law of Mutual Struggle there is in Nature the law of Mutual Aid, which . . . for the progressive evolution of the species is far more important than the law of mutual contest.” Kropotkin’s observations convinced him that those animal tribes whose members assist each other the most have survived the most extensively and are the most capable of survival, and the theory that competition is the predominating - law of life, and the “struggle for the means of existence; . .-.) Of -every man “against all other men, ‘a law of Nature,’ . . . lacked confirmation from direct observation.’’ The ex- istence of this habit of mutual aid, he shows further, is also true of primitive peoples. Lum- holtz, a missionary in North Queensland, in answer to questions put to him by the Paris An- thropological Society, said of the natives: ‘The feeling of friendship is known among them: it is ' strong. Weak people are usually supported; sick people are very well attended to; they never are abandoned or killed.”’! Other testimony given to 1 Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution, by Peter Kropotkin. Wm. Heinemann, London, 1902, p. 92.
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