.. dreadful things to
follow. But that was enough; they understood; the myth was there-
-obvious, portentous, impalpable; and so it remained to the last.
With statesmen and governors at her beck and call, with her hands
on a hundred strings, with mighty provinces at her feet, with
foreign governments agog for her counsel, building hospitals,
training nurses-- she still felt that she had not enough to do.
She sighed for more worlds to conquer--more, and yet more.
She looked about her--what was left? Of course! Philosophy! After
the world of action, the world of thought. Having set right the
health of the British Army, she would now do the same good
service for the religious convictions of mankind. She had long
noticed--with regret--the growing tendency towards free-thinking
among artisans. With regret, but not altogether with surprise,
the current teaching of Christianity was sadly to seek; nay,
Christianity itself was not without its defects. She would
rectify these errors. She would correct the mistakes of the
Churches; she would point out just where Christianity was wrong;
and she would explain to the artisans what the facts of the case
really were. Before her departure for the Crimea, she had begun
this work; and now, in the intervals of her other labours, she
completed it. Her 'Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers After
Truth Among the Artisans of England' (1860), unravels, in the
course of three portly volumes, the difficulties hitherto,
curiously enough, unsolved--connected with such matters as Belief
in God, the Plan of Creation, the Origin of Evil, the Future
Life, Necessity and Free Will, Law, and the Nature of Morality.
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