More than any other of these vassal states, it is our master's plan to bring her into complete subjection.

We need her lusty manhood, the finest cannon food in the world, for later wars, if indeed such a thing should be.

She has timber and minerals which we also need.

But there--it is enough.

First of all men in this country, my friend, you Von Ragastein, have gazed upon this picture of the future." "This is marvellously conceived," Dominey muttered, "but what of Russian with her millions?
How is it that we propose, notwithstanding her countless millions of men, to help ourselves to her richest provinces, to drive a way through the heart of her empire ?" "This," Seaman replied, "is where genius steps in.