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love you they will fear you too. We fear those most 

 we love most. If any of you who are bachelors doubt 

 this, ask those among you who are married. Well, there 

 is something to add to this. Many a local success has 

 been gained in war by the rage of men at the loss of a 

 beloved leader. But I have never heard of one gained 

 because a man they feared and hated went down in battle. 

 Remembering that all of you make up an organization, 

 you will each in your own way reach out to your men 

 and grapple them to you. In chemistry an atom is said 

 to have much valency or little or none, and its valency 

 is its power of hooking on to other atoms and making 

 a big organized molecule. Might I say to you, get as much 

 valency as you can ? You may develop it by learning 

 to help, by sympathy, by understanding. There are 

 chemical compounds called paraffins, and the word 

 etymologically means " little affinity." Paraffins are 

 compounds of satisfied valency : perhaps we might say 

 they are fatly self-satisfied. They cannot hook on to 

 anything. Do not be paraffin officers : take your men 

 into your grasp. You will get some of their best qualities, 

 and you will give them some of yours. In a very deep 

 way you will become like them and they like you. 



I do not know whether you have yet noticed, perhaps 

 as young men still being trained you have had little or 

 no chance to notice it, that under common impulses men 

 do get strangely alike. Probably there are officers here 

 who have seen this. A single dominating emotion so 

 prints itself on the faces of an organized body that the 

 common differences almost disappear. You do not 

 notice the individual members of a crowd if they are 

 moved by any vast passion. What you notice is the 

 passion itself, and it is often quite appalling. But such 



