Note 227 — Chapter VII · “THE NURSES' BATTLE”; AND HEALTH IN THE VILLAGE (1885–1893)

It was a subject of recurring self-reproach to Miss Nightingale in subsequent years that she had not found time to follow up this latter opening and organize a new crusade for the spiritual and moral welfare of the soldiers. She had already done much in that sort; and Mr. Jowett's equally recurring comment was to the point: “Why complain because you cannot do more than you do, which is already more than any other ten women could do?”