Excerpt from The Case for Compulsory Military Service
This book was originally written for the Garton Foundation, an institution intended for the impartial publication of documents and discussions relating to important questions of war and peace. For reasons into which it is unnecessary to enter, the project for its publication by that body fell through, and I now therefore turn in the ordinary way to the general public.
The present volume may claim, perhaps, to be the first attempt at a discussion of this great national question on the firm ground of historical and political facts. The most extraordinary errors have hitherto been made by the most distinguished men. Lord Salisbury, on the one hand, imagined our own bowmen of Crecy and the modern Swiss riflemen to be volunteers, while Lord Haldane supposed that England was under a voluntary system in the days of the Spanish Armada.
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