CHAPTER 4.
"Marsch, Marsch, Marsch, So Geh'n Wir Weiter!" Have you ever seen three hundred thousand men and one hundred thousand horses moving in one compact, marvelous unit of organization, discipline and system?
If you have not seen it you cannot imagine what it is like.
If you have seen it you cannot tell what it is like.

In one case the conceptive faculty fails you; in the other the descriptive.

I, who have seen this sight, am not foolish enough to undertake to put it down with pencil on paper.

I think I know something of the limitations of the written English language.

What I do mean to try to do in this chapter is to record some of my impressions as I watched it.
In beginning this job I find myself casting about for comparisons to set up against the vision of a full German army of seven army corps on the march.