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To Learn To Get Along Without, To Realize That What The World Is Going To Demand Of Us May Be A Good Deal More Important Than What We Are Entitled To Demand Of It - This Is A Hard Lesson.

A Certain Combination Of Incompetence And Indifference Can Cause Almost As Much Suffering As The Most Acute Malevolence.

The Civil War Was Fought In 10,000 Places, From Valverde, New Mexico, And Tullahoma, Tennessee, To St. Albans, Vermont, And Fernandina On The Florida Coast. More Than 3 Million Americans Fought In It, And Over 600,000 Men, 2 Percent Of The Population, Died In It.

A Singular Fact About Modern War Is That It Takes Charge. Once Begun It Has To Be Carried To Its Conclusion, And Carrying It There Sets In Motion Events That May Be Beyond Men's Control. Doing What Has To Be Done To Win, Men Perform Acts That Alter The Very Soil In Which Society's Roots Are Nourished.

And There Is The Headlight, Shining Far Down The Track, Glinting Off The Steel Rails That, Like All Parallel Lines, Will Meet In Infinity, Which Is After All Where This Train Is Going.