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years later, it came to their turn to lead the great 

 divisions of the army. They adhered to it, and 

 taught the youths they trained simply to adhere 

 to it ; and these in their turn passed it on as a 

 sacred truth, that no one must ever know, except 

 a couple of trusted staff officers, the secret that 

 is in the general's mind. 



An army thus kept in ignorance, marching 

 hither and thither, suffering often hardships the 

 need for which it does not understand, is not 

 the finest instrument of modern warfare. Put 

 an end to the ignorance of the battalion, let it 

 well understand its task, place before it the 

 meaning of the call, then it will so march and 

 endure, and so attend to the call rather than 

 to its sufferings, that it becomes worth more to 

 the general than two, or perhaps three, battalions 

 of the old style. 



It is the dislike of work, which has arisen from 

 the absence of interest, that prevents men work- 

 ing steadily in agreement with employers for a 

 common end. If men hardly want to work at 

 all, except as a means of obtaining wages, of 

 what use to ask them to work, as they think, 

 harder? 



It will not do to lose much time if an attempt 

 is to be made to give back to work the interest 

 it once had, and has now here and there. For 

 another vast change is occurring, the consequence 

 of widespread education and the invention of 

 rapid modes of communication. A generation 

 has now sprung up to manhood which has added 

 to the former leverage of the workmen's power 



