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Elements of Military Art and Science

CHAPTER I
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Paradoxical as it may seem at first glance, it is, nevertheless, amply proved by history, that the closest contact and consequent exchange of thought and produce and enlargement of knowledge, between two otherwise severed nations, is frequently produced by war.

War is a struggle, a state of suffering; but as such, at times, only that struggling process without which--in proportion to the good to be obtained, or, as would be a better expression for many cases, to the good that is to be borne--no great and essential good falls ever to the share of man.

Suffering, merely as suffering, is not an evil.

Our religion, philosophy, every day's experience, prove it.

No maternal rejoicing brightens up a mother's eve without the anxiety of labor." One word more, and we must leave this subject.


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