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causes, to wit, the German love of truth, and the French addiction 
to romance, generating respectively, in war, determination and ex¬ 
citability : after which, as to details, I agree with the above. 
To compare our army in the above particulars, I would say that 
our system of drill has much in common with that of the Germans, 
and that in steadiness we may become equal to them, in quickness 
superior: but that in military discipline—that spirit in which all, 
from the prince to the peasant, give immediate and entire supremacy, 
in all service matters, to pure military authority, without prejudice 
whatever to their social or private relations,—-even the English, as 
well as all the other armies of the world, may learn something from 
the system of Prussia. 
London, December 17 , 1870 . 
