. Review of reviews and world's work. n to show itsfutility. So long as war is a real menace to na-tions, money and thought will be expended uponthe devising of the most efficient means of de-fense and aggression. There is no virtue inhaving an inefficient army, like that of worlds peace would have been positivelypromoted if the Chinese army had been large,modern, and up to Euiopean standards. Suchan army would, on the one hand, have kept therevolutionary and criminal movement of the Box-ers from gaining such headway as to engulf theempire ; and, on the other hand, it would haveheld
. Review of reviews and world's work. n to show itsfutility. So long as war is a real menace to na-tions, money and thought will be expended uponthe devising of the most efficient means of de-fense and aggression. There is no virtue inhaving an inefficient army, like that of worlds peace would have been positivelypromoted if the Chinese army had been large,modern, and up to Euiopean standards. Suchan army would, on the one hand, have kept therevolutionary and criminal movement of the Box-ers from gaining such headway as to engulf theempire ; and, on the other hand, it would haveheld the rapacity of the European powers incheck, and there would have been no thouglit ofsuch insolence as the storming of the Taku forts. , . It is likelv enough that, if the mili- How Annies . .- . ^ ^ May Pre- tary equipment 01 the United btates verjt War. -j^^^ been a little more evident and ample, Spain would not have risked the chance of hostilities, and would have withdrawn from Cuba on some plan beneficial to the Spanish treas-.
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