Excerpt from The Evolution of Public Health Nursing Therefore the writing of a twentieth century 1118 tory of a movement thought to be less than fifty years old, is a difficult as well as a delicate task. The per spective that time, distance and cumulative emdence alone seem to give is entirely lacking when one attempts to discuss contemporaneous activities, but the world is changing with almost kaleidoscopic rapidity and his tory is being made so fast that it is well to record sa lient changes and outstanding facts. For while science is overthrowing established theories every few months, we still have to reckon with human nature, with pre' ventable suffering, with sickness and death. Education is apparently to be had for the asking, but how many people think clearly, definitely, in terms of health? To vision the future wisely, one must attempt to evalu ate the present properly, and the task of the true his torian is to so relate the past with the present that our future work is more clearly outlined in the light of former mistakes or seemingly feeble beginnings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.