Beyond war : a chapter in the natural history of man / by Vernon Lyman Kellogg.

  • Kellog, Vernon Lyman, 1867-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Beyond war : a chapter in the natural history of man / by Vernon Lyman Kellogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hilltop over the ocean looks toward Japan, and the man-form metal targets, that fall over dramatically when struck above the middle, seem to me of rather small man-size. The Monterey Presidio, although of an- cient history as America reckons ancientness— for there the soldiers and priests once guarded and prayed over the old Spanish capital of California—is a modern garrison with mod- ern administration. The well-trained officers teach the well-cared-for soldiers all the hide- ous secrets of modern scientific warfare. They have them practise assiduously with smokeless powder cartridges In wonderful guns at man-form targets scattered realistic- ally among the trees and bushes of the hill- side. If these targets were replaced by Japanese men between the ages of twenty and forty, men in the very bud and unfaded blossom of life, specially picked indeed for the fullness and purity of the blood in their bodies, each time one went over because struck above the middle, a human being would be put by the