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will not this same man, whom we are striving
to form, if in time of war he be called upon to inspire
his soldiers with courage for the fray, draw for his
eloquence on the innermost precepts of philosophy?
For how can men who stand upon the verge of battle
banish all the crowding fears of hardship, pain and
death from their minds, unless those fears be replaced by the sense of the duty that they owe
their country, by courage and the lively image of a
soldier's honour?
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