Excerpt from Education of Officers Would have been at once contrary to the writer's conscientious convictions and\ subversive of the very object of the article. He has therefore resolved to bring it before the public in a pamphlet form, with an assured conviction that the strong good sense of the American people will give a fair consideration to its suggestions, without being influenced by any bias or prejudice arising from international relations. Although the writer is an Irishman, and there fore a British subject ...
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Excerpt from Education of Officers Would have been at once contrary to the writer's conscientious convictions and\ subversive of the very object of the article. He has therefore resolved to bring it before the public in a pamphlet form, with an assured conviction that the strong good sense of the American people will give a fair consideration to its suggestions, without being influenced by any bias or prejudice arising from international relations. Although the writer is an Irishman, and there fore a British subject by birth. He has given too many public proofs, by voice and pen during some fifteen years, of his admirhtion and respect for the free institutions of America now and henceforth the homeland of his children and himself to fear that any of his observations will be attributed to an undue and partial estimate of the English system of military education. It will be seen that his remarks on that portion of the subject are mainly based upon the certainly not too partial judgments of French, German, and Russian observers. Had the article appeared in the magazine for which it was'ritten, it would of course have been anonymous; but it has seemed necessary to prefix the writer' s name to a pamphlet, because the position formerly held by him in England as a Public Examiner, and as the head of an institution at which a large number of young men were annually prepared for the Competitive Military Examinations, may be accepted as a guaranty for his possessing some practical acquaintance with the subject of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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