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Humanity - Patriotism is Not Enough - Statue

Walking north from St. Martin in the Fields church, towards St. Martin's Lane, I came across this statue to Edith Cavell labelled Humanity. The inscriprtion reads - "Patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred of bitterness for anyone."

 

I looked up the following link on Wkipedia - a very stirring account of a woman who put the lives of others ahead of her own, and was subsequently shot by the Germans in World War I. Mount Edith Cavell, in the Canadian Rockies, which I have marvelled at was named after her.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell

 

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Uploaded on June 19, 2006
Taken on March 26, 2006