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atmosphere a mean man may become generous. When 

 he has gone away he may be himself again, and contemplate 

 the counterfoil in his cheque-book with rueful astonish- 

 ment. If the motives moving such a body are not high 

 but, let us say, purely financial, it may, on the other hand, 

 do things which come to be regarded by the very men who 

 voted for them as utterly detestable from their individual 

 point of view. Conceivably such a corporation might 

 discharge an old servant without pension, and the very 

 man who moved the resolution might possibly support him 

 afterwards. For such reasons, however shortly and roughly 

 presented to you, we may infer that any organized body 

 is a real organism because it acts differently from its units, 

 and has different motives and different ends. Purely 

 individual training is useless for bringing out the qualities 

 and powers for which such a body has been created. 



Such considerations as these have a great application to 

 your physical training. Many of you thought you were 

 well and strong when you came here. Perhaps you know 

 now that you were neither. You have found out what 

 health is. It is being all one, it is forgetting you have parts, 

 since all things in you work together. A breakdown in 

 your health might mean a breakdown months hence in 

 the moral health of a platoon, and a disaster. Your 

 physical well-being is essential not only to yourselves. 

 There are glands in your body which give you courage 

 in emergencies. If the adrenal glands fail you might be 

 cowards. When training reaches a high pitch and you 

 feel the strain of it you will remember that a greater strain 

 must come on you later. That is why an army is trained 

 severely and the incapable are weeded out. A breakdown 

 of one may mean the breakdown of many. In the face 

 of difficulty we need to be well and strong, and cheerful 

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