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The Navy as a Fighting Machine

CHAPTER III
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The existence of the power is all the writer wishes to insist upon at present; the question of its employment will be considered later.
Not only is the power of a fleet immeasurably greater than that of an army, but it must always be so, from the very nature of things.
The speed of an army, _while exercising the functions of an army_, and the power of a musket, while exercising its functions as a weapon of one soldier, cannot change much from what they were when Sherman went marching through Georgia.

But, thanks to mechanical science, there is no limit in sight to the power to which a fleet may attain.
The power of a navy is of recent growth, but it is increasing and is going to continue to increase.

Every advance of civilization will advance the navy.

Every new discovery and invention will directly or indirectly serve it.

The navy, more than any other thing, will give opportunity for mechanism and to mechanism.


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