You must be tender, and yet you must be
cruel as a surgeon. Without these opposites well balanced in your
character, you will not fight the battle successfully.
NAPOLEON
won his battles by hurling ten thousand men upon two thousand. Simple,
was it not? Now you are one young soldier. You will have to find a place
in the enemy's lines which is even weaker than you before you can throw
yourself against it with success. You, therefore, cannot be too
circumspect. If the General pushes two thousand men against one
thousand, on ground that is otherwise even, he is a wise leader, but if
he finds four thousand enemies there, and if his principal attack is
hazarded in the action, he is always accounted a daring fool. Let me
recall
THE ATTACK OF A YOUNG MAN
who broke through the enemy's lines, in the City of Chicago. He got
eight dollars a week in a city on the Mississippi River, and was led to
believe that, if he went to Chicago, he could get ten dollars. He was
employed as a clerk in a Commercial Agency, a business which aims to
ascertain the standing and degree of success or lack of fortune of the
retail dealers of the region it covers.
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