Excerpt from Training
Pray get well-fixed in your mind the distinction between this system, which gives to the citizen his training throughout the years of youth, when it is most easily assimilated, and will also most greatly benefit the recipient in the matter of securing an "education," and at the same time leaves the pupil always a civilian first, and only called into service upon necessity; and that system which proposes to neglect training and greatly-needed discipline throughout the youth-time of the citizen, and then grab him up at an age when he can least spare the time, take him from home and home-influences when they, too, should remain a most potent influence in the formation of his character, and put him for an extended period, a unit in a vast army of soldiers, where training in citizenship and in the interests of civilian life are in abeyance, and where the soldier is necessarily first and the civilian not at all. The result, if such a plan for military strength as this latter one is adopted, must be a large military caste, and ultimate monarchy with all attendant evils.
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