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Show The Heroic Answer. One of the British army instruction books exhorts soldiers to face death fearlessly, since all men must die some time, and death ln the service of a great cause is nothing to fear. Generations Gen-erations ago the Greeks faced the same problems. The same heroic answer is given in the "Iliad" when Achilles refuses to spare Frium's son, Lycaon: "But. friend, even thou must die. Why dost thou wail? Patroclus Is dead, a far better man than thou. Dost thou not see how big I am and goodly? good-ly? But upon me as well as thee lie death and heavy fate. It may he In the morning or the afternoon or midday, mid-day, when some one shall take my life with cast or spear ur arrow." |