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somewhat freely from the “Soldat” of Joachim Ambert, a 
work devoted to the illustration of the Soldier's career, be 
deemed an immodest or extravagant glorification of the pro- 
fession of arms? Far be it from me to exalt unduly that 
profession, but I would at least make a claim for it, the more 
necessary since popular apprehension tends to lose sight of 
the thinker in the man of force and of blood, that, more than 
any other, it embraces all sciences and all branches of human 
kfowledge, and leads its followers into vast and diverse fields 
of thought. Let the illustrious dead be our witnesses ; that 
idea which the genius of a Michael Angelo inspired and em- 
bodied in marble, that idea which the lives of a Cesar, a 
Frederic, a Washington, a Napoleon, and a Wellington have 
justified ; the union of Force and Tuouent finds yet an- 
other and a varied illustration in the accomplished soldier 
and profound thinker whose life and works we now com- 
memorate. 
