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Page 80 - Cease to hire your armies. Go yourselves, every man of you, and stand in the ranks ; and either a victory beyond all victories in its glory awaits you, or, falling, you shall fall greatly and worthy of your past ! " The roles of Demosthenes in Athens and of Cato or Tacitus in Rome are significant.
Page 147 - Von der Goltz in The Nation in Arms (English translation, page 22) : — If, from humanitarian principles, a nation decided not to resort to extremities, but to employ its strength up to a given point only, it would soon find itself swept onward against its will. No enemy would consider itself bound to observe a similar limitation. So far from this being the case, each would avail itself of the voluntary moderation of the other to outstrip him at once in activity.
Page 147 - ... of the enemy can be effected by some artificial means, without causing too many wounds, and that this is the true aim of all military science. Pretty as that looks, we must refute the error, for, in such dangerous matters as war, errors arising from good-nature are the worst of all. As the employment of physical force to its fullest extent in no wise excludes the cooperation of intelligence, it follows that he who makes use of this force ruthlessly, and without sparing blood, must obtain an ascendancy...
Page 75 - Salisbury Plain is bleak and bare, — At least so I've heard many people declare, For I fairly confess I never was there ; — Not a shrub nor a tree, Nor a bush can you see No hedges, no ditches, no gates, no stiles, Much less a house, or a cottage for miles ; — — It's a very sad thing to be caught in the rain When night's coming on upon Salisbury Plain.
Page 147 - ... ranks. None the less must we face the fact that, individual stupidities apart, the German theory of war is the only logical one. The theory is laid down by Clausewitz at the very beginning of his classical treatise On Wars: — Philanthropists may think it possible that the disarmament or subjection of the enemy can be effected by some artificial means, without causing too many wounds, and that this is the true aim of all military science. Pretty as that looks...
Page 13 - And down the line swells high the British cheer, That on a future day woke Minden's plain, And the loud slogan that fair Scotland's foes Have often heard with dread, and oft shall hear again. And the shrill pipe its coronach that wailed On dark Culloden moor o'er trampled dead, Now sounds the " Onset " that each Clansman knows, Still leads the foremost rank, where noblest blood is shed. And on that day no nobler stained the sod, Than his, who for his country laid life down ; Who, for a mighty Empire...
Page 255 - April, when our Allies fell back before the gas and left our left flank quite open, the whole of the 27th and 28th Divisions would probably have been cut off, certainly they would not have got away a gun or a vehicle of any kind and probably not more than half the infantry. This is what our Commander-in-Chief meant when he telegraphed as he did that ' The Canadians had saved the situation.
Page 75 - Three months ago we found ourselves involved in this war, a war not of our own seeking, but one which those who have studied Germany's literature and Germany's aspirations, knew was a war which we should inevitably have to deal with sooner or later. The prompt resolve of Canada to give us such valuable assistance, has touched us deeply. That resolve has been quickened into action in...
Page 75 - OH, Salisbury Plain is bleak and bare,— At least so I 've heard many people declare, For I fairly confess I never was there;— Not a shrub nor a tree, Nor a bush, can you see; No hedges, no ditches, no gates, no stiles, Much less a house, or a cottage for miles;— —It's a very sad thing to be caught in the rain When night's coming on upon Salisbury Plain. Now, I'd have you to...