"Britisher" complains there is no Scout movement in the Chefoo schools and so the military spirit is not fostered. Now I am a great admirer of this organization. It inculcates habits of order, obedience and helpfulness which are of the very greatest service to the boys. But with all my heart I wish the same habits could be inevleated without fostering the military spirit. Are we always to go on slaughtering each other? I suppose a quasi military organization is necessary to the Boy Scouts as in their small persons they recapitulate the whole history of the
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