166 ALFltED T. SCHOPIELD^ ESQ., M.D., M.E.C.S.^ ETC., ON 



to tlie value of habit in the training and efficiency of a soldier; 

 the quality in question besides affecting his physical prowess as 

 a fighting machine, extending also to his morale, including what 

 is commonly called his soldierly hearing, as also that particular 

 mental condition in which he has come to accept as a part of his 

 own existence, the preparedness at any time, and as a matter 

 of course, to face the chances of war and battle. Although 

 personally associated with soldiers during all the years of my 

 active life I never became acquainted with such an incident as 

 that quoted at page 151 in respect to " what an automaton a soldier 

 becomes." 



Fully in accord with what occurs at page 162 relative to the 

 formation of habits of attention, perfect execution of work and 

 industry, I am convinced that he who to these rich possessions has 

 also the inestimable advantage of having been morally trained as 

 indicated in the quotation from Holy Writ given on the same page, 

 starts on the active business of life, well armed and protected 

 ao-ainst enemies whose absolute conquest is a necessity for ultimate 

 success, to say nothing of that higher aspect of existence towards 

 which we look forward in hope. 



Professor Henry Webster Parker, Ph.D., of New York, writes : — 

 The paper by Dr. Schofield is one of great interest in subject 

 and is very ably treated. I have marked a number of passages as 

 especially felicitous in statement and to be treasured for future 

 use as quotations. The moral of the subject might, however, 

 have been carried somewhat ftu'ther. It has been well remarked 

 that the entire system of things, as it relates to good and evil, w^as 

 designed to work out good, and only by perversion works evil. 

 The evil working goes to illustrate how glorious would have 

 been the right Avorking — even lightens and thunders forth the 

 blessed design. The locomotive engine in its ruinous crash and 

 wreck proclaims that power in the mechanism which, under 

 proper coiiditions, is gi-and in its beneficent service. The tre- 

 mendous force of habit, ill directed, that seems finally to plunge a 

 man helplessly downward, is the very principle that at last rendei's 

 holy living free, joyous, effortless — a second nature ; in a well- 

 ordered life, it lifts and propels ever upward. 



On pp. 145-146 I have noted several queries, but pass by as 

 specially figurative the suggested question about physical and 



