England and the War

Excerpt

This book was not planned, but grew out of the troubles of the time.  When, on one occasion or another, I was invited to lecture, I did not find, with Milton’s Satan, that the mind is its own place; I could speak only of what I was thinking of, and my mind was fixed on the War.  I am unacquainted with military science, so my treatment of the War was limited to an estimate of the characters of the antagonists.