How much of this inborn power, developed and moderated through education and the circumstances of life, is left when the man has attained a high position, is the second question.

The greater this power still is, the stronger will genius be on the wing, the higher will be its flight.

The risks become always greater, but the purpose grows with them.

Whether its lines proceed out of and get their direction from a distant necessity, or whether they converge to the keystone of a building which ambition has planned, whether Frederick or Alexander acts, is much the same as regards the critical view.

If the one excites the imagination more because it is bolder, the other pleases the understanding most, because it has in it more absolute necessity.
We have still to advert to one very important circumstance.
The spirit of boldness can exist in an Army, either because it is in the people, or because it has been generated in a successful War conducted by able Generals.