A high ideal of excellence in any individual involves combativeness and readiness to suffer. The great soldier who has also the brains to be a great civilian and the heart of a good man, is the highest of human beings. The philosophy of war - Page 39by James Ram (military tutor.) - 1880Full view - About this book
| 1884 - 724 pages
...War is one of the indispensable elements of Progress. Ram, in his " Philosophy of War," declares, " The great soldier who has also the brains to be a great civilian and the heart of a good man, M the highest of human beings." Bayne, in his " Essays on Biography and Criticism," Series ii. ; "... | |
| John Watts De Peyster - 1886 - 30 pages
...gaze, And wonder and admire." " A high ideal of excellence," according to Ram's ' Philosophy of War,' in any individual involves combativeness and readiness...Napoleon missed it through having a petty heart." There was nothing petty in our hero, Humphreys; but, on the contrary, everything grand, the grandest!... | |
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