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Sherman; the spirit which gave to the average sol- 

 dier the" grim tenacity and resourcefulness that 

 made the armies of Grant and Sherman as formi- 

 dable fighting machines as this world has ever seen. 

 We need their ruggedness of body, their keen and 

 vigorous minds, and above all their dominant qual- 

 ity of forceful character. Their lives teach us in 

 our own lives to strive after, not the thing which is 

 merely pleasant, but the thing which it is our duty 

 to do. The life of duty, not the life of mere ease 

 or mere pleasure that is" the kind of life which 

 makes the great man as it makes the great nation. 



We can not afford to lose the virtues which made 

 the men of '61 to '65 great in war. No man is 

 warranted in feeling pride in the deeds of the Army 

 and Navy of the past if he does not back up the 

 Army and the Navy of the present. If we are far- 

 sighted in our patriotism, there will be no let up in 

 the work of building, and of keeping at the highest 

 point of efficiency, a navy suited to the part the 

 United States must hereafter play in the world, 

 and of making and keeping our small Regular 

 Army, which in the event of a great war can 

 never be anything but the nucleus around which 

 our volunteer armies must form themselves, the 

 best army of its size to be found among the nations. 



So much for our duties in keeping unstained the 

 honor roll our fathers made in war. It is of even 

 more instant need that we should show their spirit 

 of patriotism in the affairs of peace. The duties 

 of peace are with us always; those of war are but 



