"The estimate of a life of such throbbing energy, the summing up of achievement and influence in due proportion--these belong to a future day. But we are wholly justified in doing honour to the memory of a woman whose personality won the heart of an entire brave nation, and of whom one of the gallant Serbian officers who bore her body to the grave said, with simple earnestness: 'We would almost rather have lost a battle than lost her!'"[23] "Alongside the wider public loss, the full and noble public recognition, there stands in the shadow the unspoken sorrow of her Unit. The price has been paid, and paid as Dr. Inglis herself would have wished it, on the high completion of a chapter in her work, but we stand bowed before the knowledge of how profound and how selfless was that surrender. Month after month her courage and her endurance never flagged. Daily and hourly, in the very agony of suffering and death, she gave her life by inches. Sad and more difficult though the road must seem to us now, our privilege has been a proud one: to have served and worked with her, to have known the unfailing support of her strength and sympathy, and, best of all, to be permitted to preserve through life the memory and the stimulus of a supreme ideal."[24] "So passes the soul of a very gallant woman. Living, she spent herself lavishly for humanity. Dying, she joins the great unseen army of Happy Warriors, who as they pass on fling to the ranks behind a torch which, pray God, may never become a cold and lifeless thing."[25] FOOTNOTES: [22] In a letter written to his son after his death: see _Life beyond Death_, by Minot Judson Savage. [23] The Very Rev. Wallace Williamson. [24] Miss Yvonne Fitzroy in _With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania_. [25] A writer in the _Sunday Times_. BIBLIOGRAPHY [The following books will be found of value by those whose interest may have been awakened by these pages to desire to know more of the career chosen by Elsie Inglis, and to gain an entrance into the lives of other men and women who have followed the medical profession both at home and abroad.--ED.] The Problem of Creation. By J. E. Mercer, Bp. S.P.C.K. Pioneers of Progress (Men of Science). Edited by S. Chapman, M.A., D.Sc. S.P.C.K. God and the World. By Canon A. W. Robinson. S.P.C.K. The Natural and Supernatural in Science and Religion. By J. M. Wilson. S.P.C.K. The Mystery of Life. By J. E. Mercer, Bp. S.P.C.K. Where Science and Religion Meet. By Scott Palmer. S.P.C.K. The Natural Law in the Spiritual World. By Henry Drummond. Hodder and Stoughton. Introduction to Science. By Prof. J. A. Thomson. Williams and Norgate. The Warder of Life. By Prof. J. A. Thomson. Melrose and Sons. Secrets of Animal Life. By Prof. J. A. Thomson. Melrose and Sons. Darwinism and Human Life. By Prof. J. A. Thomson. Melrose and Sons.