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NO reflecting Englishman can contemplate the great events of the present time without desiring to extract from them such warnings and instruction as may be serviceable to his country in case she should be drawn into war. Accordingly the press teems with discussions on every branch of the military art. We leave these to others. In what respects the constitution, the discipline, the training, and the arming of one army are superior to those of the other, it is scarcely the function of this journal to point out. Taking the broad fact that the Prussian army has, up to the present point, proved itself superior on the whole to that of France, and indeed to any army that has ever existed—a fact that no unprejudiced person will deny—let us ascertain, if we can, whether there may not be recognised some one broad cause to account for so broad a fact.
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Scientific Administration. Nature 2, 449 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002449a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/002449a0