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If he seeks to align himself with the future, he must assume a condition of some sort for a world fifty years beyond his own. Every historian sometimes unconsciously, but always inevitably must have put to himself the question: How long could such-or-such an outworn system last? He can never give himself less than one generation to show the full effects of a changed condition.
Therefore, the going left gaps which the new-comers did not seem to fill. The orders that a draft was to go to the front came to us in the morning from the Officer Commanding Reinforcements. So many officers and men of such-and-such a battalion were to proceed to such-or-such a place. Lists, nominal rolls, were prepared in the orderly-room. The men were warned.
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