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IN the searching ordeals of bomb and fire through which one after another of our great cities have passed, the fortitude and courage of their citizens has time and again overshadowed material destruction. Few can pass along those stricken streets without being inspired by the capacity of men and women to rise above discomfort, sorrow and heavy loss, or without viewing in the splendour of the human spirit revealed alike in the work of civil defence, or of caring for the homeless and suffering, an earnest of our powers to build better when the opportunity comes. The unconquerable spirit revealed in the address of the City Architect of Coventry before the Royal Society of Arts early in December attests that the opportunities are already realized, and that out of the present evil, as from a forest fire, may come greater riches and beauty.
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Leadership in Civil Defence. Nature 147, 95–96 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147095a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147095a0