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reason why the soldier, though he submits himself Book iv 

 to the most direct coercion, never considers himself, 

 and never is considered a slave ; and military 

 activity will always be a thing apart, and for in a way in 

 purposes of argument will never be comparable to industrial 

 industrial, till human nature undergoes so radical mstmct 1S not- 

 a change that men will as eagerly risk being killed 

 by unfenced machinery in a cotton-mill as they will 

 being killed by a bullet or a bayonet on the field 

 of battle. Here again the facts for which the 

 socialists reason are indubitable ; but the inference 

 which the socialists draw from them is altogether 

 illusory. 



It remains, however, to add that the desire of And even in 



_ . ... war those who 



mere honour 01 honour unaccompanied by any ma ke the pro- 

 extrinsic advantages has an efficiency which is icuud efforts 

 strictly limited in the domain even of military jJJo'Jj^ ask 

 activity itself. It may move men, in the act of rewardsbesides 



J J ^ mere honour. 



fighting, to the highest and most heroic actions ; 

 but history shows us that it has not been found 

 sufficient to elicit the sustained intellectual efforts of 

 the General, bent on achieving some great and 

 monumental conquest efforts in which all the 

 excitement of the actual fighter is wanting, and in 

 which the coolest calculation plays as large a part as 

 courage. The Caesars and Napoleons of the world 

 have certainly not, as a rule, been content, when 

 they have crushed their enemies and augmented 

 the magnificence of their country, with the gift of a 

 medal or two, and the privilege of ending their days 

 in the modest uniform of commissionaires opening 



