Are you an _honest_ man?
You will spare neither labor nor sacrifice to gain a competent knowledge of your duty.

Are you a man of _honor_?
You will be careful to avoid self-reproach.

Does your bosom glow with the holy fervor of _patriotism_?
You will so accomplish yourself as to avoid bringing down upon your country either insult or injury." "Nor are the more selfish impulses without a similar tendency.

Has _hunger_ made you a soldier?
Will you not take care of your bread! Is _vanity_ your principle of action?
Will you not guard those mighty blessings, your epaulets and feathers! Are you impelled by a love of _glory_ or a love of _power_?
And can you forget that these coy mistresses are only to be won by intelligence and good conduct ?" "But the _means_ of instruction, say you, where are they to be found?
Our standing army is but a bad and ill-organized militia, and our militia not better than a mob.

Nor have the defects in these been supplied by Lycees, Prytanees, and Polytechnic schools.