"It is from this temperament of sensibility that great heroes have been formed." The pains we are at to make men physically fit we must take likewise to make them mentally fit.

We are minutely careful in physical training, drill regulations and the rest, which is right, for thus we turn a mob into an army and helplessness into strength.

Let us be minutely careful, too, with the untried minds--timid, anxious, sensitive in matters of conscience; like him Emerson spoke of, they may be found yet in the foremost fighting line, but we must have patience in pleading with them.
Here above all must we keep our balance, must we come down with sympathy to every particular.

It is surely evident that it is essential to give the care we lavish on the body with equal fulness to the mind.
IV At the heart of the question we will be met by the religious objection to revolt.

Here all scruples, timidity, wavering, will concentrate; and here is our chief difficulty to face.