Excerpt from The Human Harvest<br/><br/>By this he meant that while population and wealth were increasing, manhood had failed. There were men enough in the streets of Rome, men enough in the camps, men enough in the menial labor or in no labor at all, but of good soldiers there were too few. Vir had given place to homo, Roman men to mere human beings. For the business of the state, which in those days was mainly war, the men were inadequate. In the recognition of this condition we touch the overshadowing fact in the history of Europe, the effect of military selection on the breed of men. This lesson, in such fashion as I may, I Shall try to set forth in these pages.
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