244 THE MAKINGS OF MANHOOD 



slackness. We shall demand for men a train- 

 ing of their manhood, for women a training of 

 their womanhood. 



We shall value manliness more than scholar- 

 ship, ease or wealth, or even the freedom we 

 fought so hard to save. Food has no flavour 

 until we have been hungry, rest has no value 

 unless we have been weary, life has no zest 

 save that from fierce endeavour, it is the work 

 we do which builds our strength. The man- 

 hood of our fathers came by use of arms, and 

 of horses, by going down to the sea in ships, 

 by hard, rough living, taking risks and endur- 

 ing pain, by generous giving and honest loving. 



The manhood of our sons will not be made by 

 indoor life, by ease, by softness, by selfishness 

 or vice. The body as well as the mind and the 

 spirit must have daily training, renewal and 

 growth, if we would avert disease, corruption 

 and decay. The future has nothing to add to 

 the past save in the hazards of the air, the 

 fierce delight of handling aircraft, and the 

 hardening of all our fibres in the conquest of 

 the skies. It will be long, however, before the 

 aeroplane can alight in forests, on mountains, 

 rough ground or stormy water, or venture very 

 far from the bases of supply. Till then our 

 industry and our wars will still need horses, and 



