Show SnMiiumnnot8 nations aro rapidly earning tho art of war and beating their teachers at their own game The Arabs whip tho English the Black Flags and Uhinese thrash tho French and now tho Abyssinians put tho Italians to rout ando and-o tho sword War and tho chase are tho chief pursuits of the savage and when by hard knocks and attrition he becomes what wo call civilized and pol I shed tho old savagery lurking in his nature crops out in ironclads torpedoes and dynamite The world seems n long 1 way from tho millennium |