And it is astonishing how much can be accomplished by systematic discipline and drill.

See how, for instance, out of the most unpromising materials--such as roughs picked up in the streets, or raw unkempt country lads taken from the plough--steady discipline and drill will bring out the unsuspected qualities of courage, endurance, and self-sacrifice; and how, in the field of battle, or even on the more trying occasions of perils by sea--such as the burning of the SARAH SANDS or the wreck of the BIRKENHEAD--such men, carefully disciplined, will exhibit the unmistakable characteristics of true bravery and heroism! Nor is moral discipline and drill less influential in the formation of character.

Without it, there will be no proper system and order in the regulation of the life.

Upon it depends the cultivation of the sense of self-respect, the education of the habit of obedience, the development of the idea of duty.

The most self-reliant, self-governing man is always under discipline: and the more perfect the discipline, the higher will be his moral condition.