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The Red Cross Spirit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Carl J. Burckhardt
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You have come here from all corners of the globe, united in the Red Cross spirit.

This spirit goes back a long way in history. It does not belong to any particular place, period, established faith or philosophy. It operates at all great moments of thought and everywhere. Then, one day a man was to give it its universal quality and effectiveness. Substance was to be given to this aspiration by exalting and binding humanity's still latent forces. That man was Henry Dunant, whose book A memory of Solferino will always remain as a monument of human grandeur.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 3 , Issue 33 , December 1963 , pp. 625 - 632
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1963

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Footnotes

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Speech delivered at the official Ceremony in commemoration of the Red Cross Centenary.

References

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