“Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?”

—  Henry Dunant, book A Memory of Solferino

Source: A Memory of Solferino (1862), p. 66

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