But it now remained to mould these qualities into a system, and to educate each individual in the habits which could best preserve the community.

Accordingly the child was reared, from the earliest age, to a life of hardship, discipline, and privation; he was starved into abstinence;--he was beaten into fortitude;--he was punished without offence, that he might be trained to bear without a groan;--the older he grew, till he reached manhood, the severer the discipline he underwent.

The intellectual education was little attended to: for what had sentinels to do with the sciences or the arts?
But the youth was taught acuteness, promptness, and discernment--for such are qualities essential to the soldier.

He was stimulated to condense his thoughts, and to be ready in reply; to say little, and to the point.

An aphorism bounded his philosophy.