Disregarding twenty-eight 5-inch guns, two hundred and fifty-two 3-inch guns, and a lot of smaller guns, and disregarding all the torpedoes, Admiral Schroeder took eighty-four 12-inch guns, ninety-six 8-inch guns, eighty-eight 7-inch guns, and forty-eight 6-inch guns, _all mounted and available_; which, assuming the power of the modern musket as a unit, equalled more than 5,000,000 modern muskets.
Such an enormous transfer of absolute, definite, available power would be impossible on land, simply because no means has been devised to accomplish it.

Such a transfer on land would be the transfer of ninety times as many soldiers as Sherman had (even supposing they had modern muskets) over fifteen times the distance and at thirty times the speed; and as the work done in going from one place to another varies practically as the square of the speed, a transfer on land equivalent in magnitude and speed to Schroeder's would be a performance 90 x 15 x 30^2= 1,215,000 times as great as Sherman's.
This may seem absurd, and perhaps it is; but why?
The comparison is not between the qualities of the men or between the results achieved.

Great results often are brought about by very small forces, as when some state of equilibrium is disturbed, and vice versa.

The comparison attempted is simply between the _power_ of a certain army and the power of a certain fleet.

And while it is true that, for some purposes, such as overcoming small resistance, great power may not be as efficacious as feeble power or even gentleness, yet, nevertheless, it must be clear that, for the overcoming of _great_ resistance quickly great power must be applied.
The existence of a certain power is quite independent of the desirability of using it.