may fitly close by pointi

Le course of action, ever
voluntarily became a soldier. Occupy him early, and wisely, in agriculture or business, in science or in literature, and he will never think of war otherwise than as a calamity. But leave

him idle; and, the more brave and active and c apable he is by nature, the more he will thirst for some appointed field for action; and find, in the passion and peril of battle, the only satisfying fulfilment of his unoccupied being. And from the earliest incipient civilisation until now, the population
of the earth divides itself, when you look at it widely,
into two races; one of workers, and the other of players--one tilling the g