Excerpt from Sketches of the Goorka War in India: In the Years 1814, 1815, 1816 A native soldier, of whatever rank, has no heroism, and he is ignorant of honour in every acceptation of the word. Without owing na tural allegiance, or having any incentive to serve os, less ignoble than his pay, he is in our hands no better thana living machine. What the men do not possess within themselves must be communicated by the officers: and to effect this important object an addition of Europeans to the native regiments is ...
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Excerpt from Sketches of the Goorka War in India: In the Years 1814, 1815, 1816 A native soldier, of whatever rank, has no heroism, and he is ignorant of honour in every acceptation of the word. Without owing na tural allegiance, or having any incentive to serve os, less ignoble than his pay, he is in our hands no better thana living machine. What the men do not possess within themselves must be communicated by the officers: and to effect this important object an addition of Europeans to the native regiments is indispensable. We may consider an army as divided into two portions, the intellectual and the physical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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