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start. Consider, again, how the led are, in 

 many cases, not the mentally and physically 

 best for the task : they are too often the 

 surplus of the inferior stocks. What wonder 

 when we put the one in competition with the 

 brains and training of the German com- 

 mercial and technical houses we meet defeat ! 

 What wonder that, when we take the other 

 out of its environment, the leaders cannot 

 lead, and the led fall an easy prey to sickness 

 and disease ? The regiment which has 

 marched farthest and has marched quickest, 

 which has suffered little from disease and 

 fought as well as any in the Transvaal, is 

 a volunteer regiment, drawn from that very 

 reserve of strength in the better stocks to 

 which I have referred. 



In industry it is the same thing. We 

 shall do no good against the American and 

 the German by a mere multiplication of 

 centres of technical instruction. What we 

 want to do is to bring brains into our in- 

 dustry from top to bottom. Where the 

 brains already exist, there training will work 

 wonders ; but we shall not make the product 

 of inferior stock capable men by merely 



