Rotrospect. 
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the war department would be willing to assist, but in any case there 
need be no obstacle to the attendance of Regular officers at Militia and 
Volunteer practice, nor should it be found impossible to time the 
practice of the Regulars so as to suit the convenience of the Militia and 
the Volunteers. 
Conotupine REMARKS. 
And now we have come to the end of our inquiry into the question 
of a training intended to meet the general requirements of the Garrison 
Artillery, and the exact needs of its three branches in respect to their 
local duties, it would be well to glance briefly at the ground over 
which we have travelled. We began with the proposition that military 
training was valuable only as far as it produced military efficiency. 
We saw that efficiency in the Garrison Artillery might be considered 
to be attained when it was capable of completely fulfilling the needs of 
our coast fortresses and fortified harbours. We then saw that in order 
that this might be brought about by a suitable system of training 
there must needs be a suitable fortress organisation to which that 
training might conveniently adapt itself. We next came to the con- 
clusion that the principles which govern the associations for collective 
industry in civil life might with advantage be applied to the organisa- 
tion we were in search of, and that if we desired to have an efficient 
Artillery Garrison in an effective fortress, we must accept the motto 
“one man one work” as our guiding principle. After this we saw 
how that principle coupled with another almost as important, namely “to 
every man an under-study” could be turned to account in the difficult 
task of making our somewhat incongruous garrisons adjust themselves 
to the requirements of the fortresses, and we went at some length into 
certain difficulties inseparable from that undertaking. We next set 
ourselves to ascertain how best in time of peace we could train the 
various branches of the Garrison Artillery in all parts of the world, so 
that each man might when called upon be able to perform the work 
which in the process of organisation, we had narrowed to the utmost, 
and relegated to him individually. 
Following up the enquiry we ultimately concluded that the existing 
means of instruction modified by a definite local bias would answer all 
purposes. 
Finally we saw that by carefully training each branch separately and 
testing that training by small combinations of the Regular and Auxil- 
iary branches, following the lines of the local Defence Schemes, we 
could without operations on any extravagant scale, prove satisfactorily 
that the great machine for war had beeen made perfect in detail and 
capable of immediate assembly as a whole. 
Throughout our investigations we have carefully abstained from dis- 
cussing the peculiarities of particular fortresses or of special armaments, 
nor have we entered into the minutiz of management in particular 
corps. 
The requirements of particular fortresses are the affairs of the officers 
located in them, and the circumstances of particular corps vary only in 
