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Show THE SHALL MAN IN WAS, ' Many years ago Carlyle, one of the profoundest of -thinkers In any age, writing jf the revolution which gunpowder gun-powder had wrought in warfare, sugi gested that it tended to spiritualize war; that the soldier with mere brute strength no longer had an advantage over a puny adversary, but that dwarf and giant were placed on the-same level. lev-el. sThe result of the war between Japan and Russia demonstrates the truth of Carlyle'a observation. If In this great conflict the weapons employed had been such as were used in the battle of Waterloo the Russian might have been the victor. The Czar's legions le-gions might have used to advantage the shock tactics,'' the hurling of great masses of men upon the Japanese and the bloody hand-to-hand conflicts with cold steel. Russian bulk and stature must have told under such conditions against the Japanese, who might havs been overborne and crushed by sheer weight. Given a certain number of men on each side, each equally brave and equally skilled, in the use of the sword and the bayonet, and the odds would certainly seem to be In: favor of the fighters whose physical strength was superior to that of the other com batants. Baltimore Sun. j |