Show courage the question of the comparative pro portion of really brave men in any army will probably never be determined great officers on the continent keep their knowledge on that subject rigor bously as a professional secret and as bume same as a certainty that all soldiers are brave they know very well however that they are not and when con confided fiden bial will admit as marshal von moltke once did in public that with a great number it takes discipline and severe discipline too to induce them tofake to race shells hells american officers hae haia been known to acknowledge that ot of their men who are as brave as any in the world 20 per cent would run away if they could and in every army even ours which a man enters only of freewill free will there is a certain proportion who literally cannot overcome their fears ears they are stricken with a sort of paralysis the proportion is probably not high in any army the majority it if in health being able to do their duty and having intense motives to do it but neither is the proportion high of those who literally feel no fear london spectator |