[25]. Biglow Papers.
[26]. Lecture on Voltaire.
[27]. “I want for soldiers young men not only willing but anxious to fight,”—that foul and savage saying is one of the choice mouthings of Theodore Roosevelt, in a public address in which that cheap, distinguished and much flattered Noise disgraced the office of President of the American “Republic.”
[28]. See Chapter Five, Section Two; Chapter Eight, Section 11; also Index: “Disease in the Army.”
[29]. Chatterton-Hill: Heredity and Selection in Sociology, pp. 320–22.
[30]. Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1907, p. 17.
[31]. Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1909, p. 17. Emphasis mine. G. R. K.
[32]. Quoted by Elbert Hubbard in Health and Wealth. See New Age, Aug. 5, 1909.
[33]. See also President D. S. Jordan’s brilliant sociological studies of war, references in Chapter XII. of present volume. Of some interest are Victor Hugo’s estimates in William Shakespeare, Part Third, Book III., Chapter I.
[34]. Chatterton-Hill in Heredity and Selection in Sociology makes the total 21,000,000.