This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son? / And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

The fact that he was a self-made man, that he was a lieutenant in the army and became the emperor, I liked that,

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.