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computation I have not the least doubt but the
latt former would be found to fall short considerably be fewer than
of the latter.
Where this custom is in fashion every man is
at heart a soldier a soldier in his heart : and in the present state of
the art of war we all know how much
more depends upon the heart than upon the arm.
Were it ever to be extinct it would be in Europe
as in Asia, the whole spirit of the nation
would be monopolized by the soldiery: the rest
would be like sheep under the government of
wolves: here the nation would be divided into two
great casts the cast of Rajapouts and the cast of Hallachores .
If We are read in are told by Plutarch of a little
tyrant of one of the Greek states in Asia who
having an end in view the opposite to that here in
question here, pursued it by means took of up a line of policy the
opposite of that suggested here. As a means of
confirming himself in his tyranny seat he did what
he could to encourage in the youth of his state
the love of foppery. In those days when so much
depended upon the hardiness the expedient might have
some effect: it would signify but little nowadays do but little nowadays :
in
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