. American engineer and railroad journal . HYDRAULIC CANAL LIFT AT LOUVTERE. SIDE HYDRAULIC CANAL LIFT AT LOUYlfiRB, FRONT VIEW. 214 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [May, 1894. aging his own ship, encountering torpedoes, and bringingabout needless loss of life, but adopts a course that leavescomparatively little chance that the enemy, which by otheranion might be reduced and taken, will ever be added to theeffective sea forces of his own country. And, after all, a tri-umph is only half a triumph unless there be something to showfor it. One of the few things that would go toward recon-ciling Great
. American engineer and railroad journal . HYDRAULIC CANAL LIFT AT LOUVTERE. SIDE HYDRAULIC CANAL LIFT AT LOUYlfiRB, FRONT VIEW. 214 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [May, 1894. aging his own ship, encountering torpedoes, and bringingabout needless loss of life, but adopts a course that leavescomparatively little chance that the enemy, which by otheranion might be reduced and taken, will ever be added to theeffective sea forces of his own country. And, after all, a tri-umph is only half a triumph unless there be something to showfor it. One of the few things that would go toward recon-ciling Great Britain to the agonies of a naval war would bethe occasional spectacle of a foreign battleship brought intoSpithead or Plymouth Sound, with the white ensign blowingout above the other flag. That is a sight which would ani-mate the whole Empire, even in its hours of misery. If onlyon these grounds it seems unwise to destroy your foe whenperadventure you can take him alive. And it is scarcely con-ceivable that a disabled vessel cannot be reduced and made tostrike by the combined influ
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