![]() The general community, in civil life, includes not only the strong and healthy, but also the defective, the weak, and the sick, the blind, the halt, the consumptive, the rheumatic, the immature in childhood, and the exhausted and decrepit in age. None but those of perfect form, complete in all their organization and functions, and free from every defect or disease, are intended to be admitted. This is usually regarded in the original creation of an army. ![]() In order, then, to have a strong and effective army, it is necessary not only to have a sufficient number of men, but that each one of these should have in himself the greatest amount of force, the fullest health and energy the human body can present. The weakness of any part, however small, diminishes, to that extent, the force of the whole and the increase of power in any part adds so much to the total strength. No army can be strong, however numerous its soldiers, if they are weak nor is it completely strong, unless every member is in full vigor. ![]() THE power and efficiency of an army consist in the amount of the power and efficiency of its elements, in the health, strength, and energy of its members. ![]()
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