'"
"Added to which," continued Wolston, "that is not a normal career;
there is no diploma required for it; it is an accident arising out of
adventitious circumstances, sometimes fostered by ambition, but no
course of study can produce a conqueror."
"What, then, is the use of military schools?"
"They are, to the best of my knowledge, instituted for rearing
defenders for one's country, and not with a view to the subjugation of
another's."
"My poor Fritz," said Mrs. Becker laughing, "I hope when you conquer
half the world, you will find an occupation for your mother more in
consonance with your dignity than mending your stockings."
"Then, again," continued Wolston, "war cannot be waged by a single
individual."
"There must be an enemy somewhere," suggested Willis.
"The difficulty does not, however, lie there," observed Jack; "for, if
we have no enemies, it is easy enough to make them."
"There must, at all events, be armies, magazines, and a treasury--or
eggs, as the great commander in question hinted."
"True," replied Fritz; "but there is the same difficulty as regards
all professions; there can be no barristers without briefs, no
physicians without patients."
"You will admit, however, that clients and patients are not so rare as
hundreds of thousands of armed men and millions of money.
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