and forests give timber, but only Spain gives 

 Spaniards, and she may give so many that 

 she may be left desolate, and constrained to 

 bring up strangers' children instead of her 

 own." "This is Castile," said a Spanish 

 knight; "she makes men and wastes them." 

 "This sublime and terrible phrase," says 

 Captain Carlos Oilman Calkins, from whom 

 I have received both these quotations, 

 "sums up Spanish history." 



The warlike nation of to-day is the deca- 

 dent nation of to-morrow. It has ever been 

 so, and in the nature of things it must ever 

 be. 



In his charming studies of "Feudal and 

 Modern Japan," Mr. Arthur Knapp, of 

 Yokohama, returns again and again to the 

 great marvel of Japan's military prowess 

 after more than two hundred years of peace. 

 This was shown in the Chinese war. It has 

 been more conclusively shown on the fields 

 of Manchuria since Mr. Knapp's book was 

 written. It is astonishing to him that, after 

 more than six generations in which physi- 

 cal courage has not been demanded, these 

 virile virtues should be found unimpaired. 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



The 



greatness 

 of Japan 



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