Suggestions for Thought by Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. It is not generally known, however, that Nightingale was at the forefront of the religious, philosophical, and scientific though of her time. In a three volume work that was never published, Nightingale presented her radical spiritual views, motivated by the desire to give those who had turned away from