The Greeks And the Persians
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Whatever law commands that they do ; and it commands always the same thing, charging them never to fly from any enemy, but to remain in their ranks and to conquer or die. " The value of this conversation lies wholly in the truth of the lesson which it teaches ; and this lesson enforces the contrast between the principle of fear and the principle of voluntary obedience. It is profoundly true that brute force driven by the lash cannot be trusted in a conflict with minds moved by a deep moral impu...lse. The tyranny of few men has equaled that of Napoleon Bonaparte; but Bonaparte knew perfectly well that mere numbers and weapons were of little use, unless his soldiers could be stirred by a fierce enthusiasm. Not a little of his power lay in his ingenious use of claptrap to stir up this enthusiasm ; and the point of the convert sation between Xerxes and Demaratos is that to such a height even as this the standard of mere deception it was impossible for a Persian despot to rise. Nay, Cyrus, if not Dareios, might have reminded Xerxes that the foundations of the Persian empire were not laid by men driven to battle by the scourge.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Whatever law commands that they do ; and it commands always the same thing, charging them never to fly from any enemy, but to remain in their ranks and to conquer or die. " The value of this conversation lies wholly in the truth of the lesson which it teaches ; and this lesson enforces the contrast between the principle of fear and the principle of voluntary obedience. It is profoundly true that brute force driven by the lash cannot be trusted in a conflict with minds moved by a deep moral impu...lse. The tyranny of few men has equaled that of Napoleon Bonaparte; but Bonaparte knew perfectly well that mere numbers and weapons were of little use, unless his soldiers could be stirred by a fierce enthusiasm. Not a little of his power lay in his ingenious use of claptrap to stir up this enthusiasm ; and the point of the convert sation between Xerxes and Demaratos is that to such a height even as this the standard of mere deception it was impossible for a Persian despot to rise. Nay, Cyrus, if not Dareios, might have reminded Xerxes that the foundations of the Persian empire were not laid by men driven to battle by the scourge.
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