[106] Les Hussards étaient d’ailleurs les maraudeurs par excellence; ils se sentaient encore de leur premier recrutement. On respectait ce penchant des troupes légères pour leur donner plus de mordant dans la poursuite à laquelle elles se trouvaient ainsi plus particulièrement intéressées.—Picard, La Cavalerie dans les guerres de la Revolution et de l’Empire, p. 201.
[107] “In teaching it is not sufficient for the teacher to express clearly what he means—the words may be to him quite clear, but the real question is, are they clear to the pupil, do they put his mind into a condition in which he follows and grasps the idea that the teacher would emphasize?”—Professor Culverwell on the Herbartian Psychology.
[108] May not a trace of this religious fanaticism, however, be seen in the letter of an Irish soldier, who wrote home during the South African War of 1899–1902 as follows:—
“Dear mother, we are having a lovely time of it, shooting Protestants all day long, and no one to stop us.”
[109] This view was expressed in 1907 by the commander of the 1st Japanese cavalry regiment.
[110] General Kleber, when his men, overcome by fatigue, refused to move a step farther, called them cowards. As they protested that they were at any rate always brave in a fight, he replied, “Yes, you are brave men, but you are not soldiers. To be a soldier is not to eat when you are hungry, not to drink when you are thirsty, and to carry your comrade when you cannot drag yourself along.”—Manuel du gradé de cavalerie.
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