EBOOK ELSIE INGLIS ***
Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Martin Pettit
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net
ELSIE INGLIS
[Illustration: _Photo by Bassano_
ELSIE INGLIS
AFTER HER RETURN FROM SERBIA IN 1916
_Frontispiece_]
PIONEERS OF PROGRESS
WOMEN
EDITED BY ETHEL M. BARTON
ELSIE INGLIS
THE WOMAN WITH THE TORCH
BY
EVA SHAW McLAREN
WITH A PREFACE BY
LENA ASHWELL
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
_Great souls who sailed uncharted seas,
Battling with hostile winds and tide,
Strong hands that forged forbidden keys,
And left the door behind them, wide_.
_Diggers for gold where most had failed,
Smiling at deeds that brought them Fame,--
Lighters of Lamps that have not failed,--
Lend us your oil and share your flame._
TO
AMY SIMSON
PREFACE
"To light a path for men to come" is the privilege of the pioneer; and
the life of a pioneer, the hewer of a new path, is always encouraging,
whether he who goes before to open the way be a voyager to the Poles or
the uttermost parts of the earth, in imminent danger of physical death,
or whether he be an adventurer, cutting a path to a new race
consciousness, revealing the power of service in new vocations, evoking
new powers, and living in hourly danger of mental suffocation by
prejudices and inhibitions of race tradition.
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25