Evatt, G. J. H. (George Joseph Hamilton), 1843-1921; Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
“It does not make a thing good, that it is remarkable that a
woman should have been able to do it. Neither does it make a
thing bad, which would have been good had a man done it, that
it has been done by a woman.
“Oh, leave these jargons, and go your way straight to God’s
work, in simplicity and singleness of heart.”
The well-remembered words of Ruskin’s appeal to girls in “Sesame and
Lilies,” published but a few years earlier, were evidently in Miss
Nightingale’s mind when she wrote the closing sentences of her tribute
to Agnes Jones—sentences which set their seal upon this volume, and will
echo long after it is forgotten.
“Let us,” she writes, “add living flowers to her grave, ‘lilies
with full hands,’ not fleeting primroses, nor dying flowers.
Let us bring the work of our hands and our heads and our
hearts to finish her work which God has so blessed. Let us not
merely rest in peace, but let hers be the life which stirs up
to fight the good fight against vice and sin and misery and
wretchedness, as she did—the call to arms which she was ever
obeying:—
‘The Son of God goes forth to war—
Who follows in His train?’
“O daughters of God, are there so few to answer?”
APPENDIX.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
Letter (on the Madras Famine): The Great Lesson of the Indian Famine,
etc. 1877.
Life or Death in India. A Paper read at the Meeting of the National
Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Norwich, 1873, with an
Appendix on Life or Death by Irrigation. 1874.
Notes on Hospitals: being two Papers read before the National Association
for the Promotion of Science ... 1858, with the evidence given to the
Royal Commissioners on the state of the Army in 1857 (Appendix, Sites and
Construction of Hospitals, etc.).
Do., 3rd Edition, enlarged, and for the most part rewritten. 1863.
Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital
Administration of the British Army, founded chiefly on the experience of
the late war. 1858.
Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not. 1860.
New Edition, revised and enlarged, 1860; another Edition, 1876.
Miss Florence Nightingale ovy knitra o oŝctr̂ování nemocnŷch. z
anglického pr̂eloẑila. Králova, 1872.
Des Soins à donner aux malades ce qu’il faut faire, ce qu’il faut eviter.
Ouvrage traduit de l’Anglais. 1862.
Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes, with a Chapter on Children.
1861.
Do., New Edition, 1868 and 1876.
Observations on the ... Sanitary State of the Army in India. Reprinted
from the Report of the Royal Commission. 1863.
On Trained Nursing for the Sick Poor.... A Letter ... to _The Times_ ...
April 14, 1876.
Sanitary Statistics of Native Nursing Schools and Hospitals. 1863.
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