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BOOK V
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It comes from energy combined with high gifts of organisation, economic, architectonic.
C3.19.Nice, I think, this contrasting of spiritual and natural productiveness.
C3.32.Here is the rule of conduct clearly expressed, nor do I see how a military age could frame for itself any other.

Christianity only emerged _sub pace Romana_, which for fraternal brotherhood was the fullness of time; and even in the commercial age the nations tumble back practically into the old system.
C3.36 ff.

An army on forced march: are there any novelties here?
C3.53.These minute details probably not boring at the time, but interesting rather, perhaps useful.
C4.13.Cyrus resembles Fawcett in his unselfish self-estimate.

Gadatas is like the British public, or hgd.
C4.16.Here we feel that the Assyrian is not a mere weakling: he can play his part well enough if he gets a good chance.

It needs an Archic and Strategic Man to overpower him.
C4.17.ANCIENT and MODERN parallelism in treatment of wounded.
C4.24.Hellenic war ethics: non-combatant tillers of the soil to be let alone.


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