If this could be proved, the argument, particularly in a country where every man is a soldier, would be sufficiently one-sided.

But is the virtue of the prize-fighter the virtue of the soldier?
One doubts it.

Nerve and dash are surely of more service in the field than a temperament of unreasoning indifference as to what is happening to one.

As a matter of fact, the German student would have to be possessed of much more courage not to fight.

He fights not to please himself, but to satisfy a public opinion that is two hundred years behind the times.
All the Mensur does is to brutalise him.