GOLD MEDAL PRIZE ESSAY,, 1892 . 
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It is impossible to give a conclusive answer to tbe question asked in 
the title of this Essay. Great as tlie progress in Fire Discipline 
training has undoubtedly been during the past few years improvement 
must still be sought for. The means which may seem best to-day for 
securing Fire Discipline in a battery may be superseded by other 
methods to-morrow. How true this is can be seen by comparing one 
with another the successive annual “ Instructions for Practice/* which 
have been issued since 1888 when training in Fire Discipline began to 
be systematically practised. Year by year fresh developments suggest 
themselves, and fresh departures are taken. Finality can never be 
expected. It only remains for us to watch our neighbours in order to 
profit by their experience, and equally watch ourselves to guard 
against inactivity. “ S'arreter c*est de retrograder.** 
Conclusion, 
