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ance, indomitable courage, and physical strength sooner 

 or later conquered. 



As, however, in mechanics, a timid, puny boy, with 

 the assistance of a pulley, could drag towards him Mars 

 or Hercules, so must the new arms of precision lately 

 invented, give victory, not to the bravest or the strongest, 

 but to whichever of two combatant armies shall exercise 

 their deadly weapons with the greatest amount of science. 



And, as fortification has justly been defined " the art 

 of enabling a small body of men to resist for a considerable 

 time the attack of a greater number," so will, in future, 

 the science of war consist in the art of concealing by every 

 possible artifice the general commanding, his staff, his 

 artillery, cavalry, and infantry, from the fire of rifled 

 cannon and Minie muskets, of which, when properly 

 directed, it may be said that almost " every bullet will 

 have its billet." 



On this principle, if England were to be invaded, it 

 would be the endeavour and the duty of the general 

 on whose intellectual powers the destiny of the empire 

 would hang, to direct his army to take against their 

 enemy (after, in spite of his utmost efforts, they had effected 

 a landing), not, as in by-gone days, " the field" but rather 

 possession of the banks, hedges, and ditches thereof; to 

 make every great mansion, building, or village, by loop- 

 holing their walls, a Hougoumont ; every railway embank- 



