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ALEXANDER': Conquered the world, never lost a battle and
slept with Homer's pocna beneath his pillow even' on the. march
Make the Best Generals?
JULIUS CESAR:- Wrote the elhasic military handbook "The Gallie War"- and the greatest dispatch of all time "Veni, Vidi, Viej?!?!
Apenre could över great general, or the Duke of Wel- lington, a great poet. Two of the world's greatest novelists, Cervantest and Tolstoy, were soldiers,, but I doubt whether elther of them had it in him to become a Marlborough,
ever have become u
At the same me,.there is one thing that binds all men of genius Into one family imagination. With out imagination it is as impossible to become a great soldier as it is tn. become a great wrller, as impossible to become a great leader of Industry us it is to become a great scientifle discoverer.
It is imagination that is the cren- live force, whether in war or in the arts, in science or politics or business. Occasionally, Imagination in one PLAIN SATIN WE were given a picture the I have never believed in this man steeped in literature and sphere overlaps with imagination in other day of General Wavell theory of the brainlessness of philosophy, as was to be expect- sesses a double genius for polities another. Thus Mr Churchill, pos- reading the poetry of Browning the military man. The great ed in a young man whose tutor and literature. Similarly, Montroso on his way to the battlefield, soldier in particular must be a had been Aristotle. Alexander, possessed a double genius for litera- That General Wavell is a literary the great writer.
man of imagination no less than it is said, always slept with ture and war, and every schoolboy
The great Homer beside his pillow.
can quote his lines: soldier, however, would have goldier, like the great poet,
He either fears his fate too much been clear even without this depends on inspiration for his The most famous soldier of
Or his deserts are small That darea not put it to the touch,
To gain or lose it all.
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information to anyone who read triumphs. those fine extracts from his life
genlus in the Roman world, again, Julius Caesar, was also→→→
of Allenby recently published. The connection between, war- to the dismay of English school- Again, Wolfe, If not ព man of fare and literature, indeed, has boys later on-one of the most poetie genius, was a man of poetic In modern times it became the always been close. The first famous of Latin authors. I pasalons, if we may judge by the fashion to look on Army men as great poet of whom we know, never cared for the "Gallic War story that, when on his way to storin the Heights of Abraham at Quebec, men who followed a profession King David of Israel, began his myself, but Lord Macaulay-he said that he would rather have at the opposite pole from litera- carcer with a very remarkable who know a thousand times more written Gray's "Elegy in a Country: ture. Colonels and majors were military exploit against Goliath Latin than I did even at school Churchyard" than fake Quebec. depicted in the comic papers as and the Philistines
regarded it as one of the world's semi-illiterate-barbarians with. Among the Greeks, Pericles masterpieces of prose.
o come down to the lust war, a writer of genlus, T. E. Lawrence, bad tempera who ended every was a general, and Pericles, if It appears, then that the military proved also to be a soldier of genius, sentence with a loud "What?" the report of his funeral speech so separate as has been sometimes he was the greatest military genius mind and the literary mind are not Some experts maintain, Indeed, that in Thucydides "is approximately supposed. There was a nineteenth- on the British alde.
"literary soldier-n
THE members of one of the accurate, was a master of lan- century writer, Indeed, Professor It is not to be wondered at, then, most famous families of guage, I do not know what was Craik, who maintained that genius that the greatest victory in the war cavalry officers were described the rank of Aeschylus, but ho was essentially the same in all its so far has been achieved by one who
manifestations, and that, if a man may be called by an eminent historian as being wished to be remembered, not possessed genius, it was within his soldier in whom imination and "as brave and as brainless as the as a writer of tragedies, but as power to become either a great character are perfectly blended. horses they ride"-a gross, libet a soldier. He left the instruc- soldier or a great writer, a grant Character is even more essential
thon imagination, but without ima as regards the second adjective tion: "Put on my tomb He statesman or a great business man."
think this is an exaggeration. I gination character cannot on the best known member of fought at Marathon.” ”**
And it hard to believe that Shake with wings on its heels,
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., Ltd. the family living to-day. During
the
the Franco-Prussian War, again, ALEXANDER someone described the French perhaps the greatest soldier army as "lions led by asses.” of the ancient world-was a
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MONTROSE: Soldier who with a handful of men ralled a kingdom; monarchist; philosopher; poet
WOLFE! Non-professional soldier, who recited and wished he had written-a poem before his last battle
LAWRENCE:
Supreme questa fighter, supremc writer of prose in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
WAVELL: Writes de bril- liantly almost! as he Rghts. Like Alexander, travels with a book of versc