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Excerpt from Florence Nightingale
She achieved all this partly through sheer inborn ability. One man 1 said of her Her gift was her power to dominate, which lifted her from out the ranks of those who are only able to the highest reached by those who are great. He also said: The males at that time in England were giving proofs of a lameness in the use Of brain-power they 'needed the propulsion of the quicker, the woman's brain, to set them going. A woman proved abler than the masculine rulers who had made utter default.
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