Psychological Quarterly Retrospect
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We should either have been more or less than man if we had escaped the infectious enthusiasm of that glorious movement which may be said to have attained maturity in the Volunteer Review, before Her Majesty, on the 23rd ult. We refer to the movement here, not that we propose to' discuss its ethical or ?esthetical aspects. These are sufficiently impressed upon the feelings of every true Englishman. But there is an incidental circumstance connected with the growth of the Volunteer Rifle Corps, which is worthy of being called to mind, as being amusingly illustrative of the little change which man's habits of thought undergo in the course of ages. " My good sir," exclaims Paterfamilias, seizing us warmly by the arm, if we happen to stray into the drill-ground, or to be his neighbour at the dinner-table, or to come across him in the Park?" My good sir," he exclaims, " now isn't this truly excellent for our young men; this drill, this rifle exercise, this so forth." Of course Paterfamilias never touches upon the great moral and political significations of the Rifle
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دوره 13 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016