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disciples give to the multitude. But these means Book n 

 are of so universal a kind, and have so little con- 

 nection with any specific social arrangements, that 

 none of the disputed points of social politics are 

 involved in them ; and we consequently have at 

 present no occasion to discuss them. So, too, with 

 regard to the military leader, though the means which 

 are employed by him do, beyond a doubt, imply 

 social arrangements of a very specific kind namely, 

 an iron system of discipline, with death and the lash 

 to sanction it ; yet these arrangements, however they 

 may be denounced by sentimentalists, have always 

 been found essential to the efficiency of every army ; 

 and though many worthy people would abolish 

 military activity altogether, and whilst socialists 

 especially express themselves anxious to do so, it 

 is perfectly evident nor would any socialist deny 

 it that a socialist State, if it had to fight for its 

 existence, would be obliged to enforce the required 

 military discipline by methods essentially identical 

 with those of Caesar or Wellington. It may, indeed, 

 be disputed whether the great military leader is 

 not a superfluous figure on the social stage ; but 

 so long as his greatness makes itself felt at all, 

 it will continue to make itself felt by the same 

 means. 



The only domains of social activity, therefore, in we need con- 

 which the means employed by the great man to are^Jln 11 " 

 control the actions of others so that ordinary men th f e domains 



j of politics and 



may be guided by the faculties of the exceptional of weaith-pro- 



i 11 r 1-1 i duction - 



the only domains ot activity in which these means, 



