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a passion, when it has been properly excited by the 

 actions and words of a leader, will occasionally come 

 back as a renewed stimulus with a tremendous force on 

 that very leader himself. I do not know whether you 

 remember a resounding phrase about a great traditional 

 poet and the people for whom he sang. It was : " What 

 they sent up to him in vapour he returned to them in 

 flood." 



May I then say once more that it is your work so to 

 train your men and yourselves that, when the hour of 

 stress comes, you will not only help them and lead them, 

 but will also receive from them the unsuspected but 

 mighty stimulation which comes from the undivided 

 strength of a real organism devoted to one high end, 

 the well-being and honour and glory of our country ? 



