Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays




Contents:

Woman's Work in a Country Parish
The Science of Health
The Two Breaths
Thrift
Nausicaa in London; or, the Lower Education of Women
The Air-Mothers
The Tree of Knowledge
Great Cities and their Influence for Good and Evil
Heroism
The Massacre of the Innocents
"A mad world, my masters."




WOMAN'S WORK IN A COUNTRY PARISH {1}



I have been asked to speak a few words to you on a lady's work in
a country parish. I shall confine myself rather to principles
than to details; and the first principle which I would impress on
you is, that we must all be just before we are generous. I must,