336 ASHFORD— SANITARY SCIENCE AND THE GREAT WAR. 



man simply as a machine. Germany had the most perfect machine 

 in the world and she failed. She persistently bid us to treat our 

 men as machines and she herself failed. It is the spirit of a glorious 

 France that bespeaks our own American heart and the words are 

 from the favorite work of a brave and humane officer, idolized by 

 his men, Major General Goubeau, given me personally as his divi- 

 sion watched the road to Metz : 



" Le soldat n'est point une machine. Avant d'etre une unite de 

 groupe, il est une personne." 



Surgeon-General's Office, 



War Department, Washington, D. C. 

 April, 1919. 



