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and the men who knew the arts and crafts. In times of war especially have all these three functions of the society to be maintained, as was found out by actual experience in the last Great European War (of 1914–18). The rule has a very great advantage over general conscription ; because, firstly, general conscription concerns itself merely with man-power, irrespective of the question who is to feed the armies and of labour, without which it is impossible to do anything practical, especially in times of stress. Secondly, general conscription attends to the physical side only of the problem of man-power ; it is incapable of training the mind, that is to say, of instilling the real military instinct in the soldier's heart. The conscription that was adopted by the WORLD TEACHER made a provision for the preservation of trade and labour at the same time as it aspired to make every soldier a hero. The true martial spirit that is wanting in a general conscription because of the lack of family traditions in the great majority of cases, is acquired at home and early in childhood by the mere incident of being born in the military class. There is none so humble in this group who may not be able to recall some sort of glorious ancestry to fire his imagination. Brāhmaṇas have really no place in this scheme, for education was never a
