Without such an apparatus no two men can even think on the same line; much less can they ever hope to detach the real point of difference that divides them and isolate it for quiet solution. In our own case this view of the value of strategical theory has a special significance, and one far wider than its continental enunciators contemplated.

Doctrines which but the span of two human lives before would have brought their enunciators to the stake were now pronounced not impious, but sublime. The first day of the nineteenth century was fittingly signalized by the discovery of a new world.