he Duke of Wellington, Napier, Wolseley.

C2.32. Cf. modern times; humane orders, but strict.

C2.34. The question of commissariat. Would a modern force storm a camp
without taking rations? I dare say they would.

C2.37. Notice the tone he adopts to these slaves; no bullying, but
appealing to appetite and lower motives. This is doubtless Xenophontine
and Hellenic.

C2.38. Important as illustrating the stern Spartan self-denial of
the man and his followers. There is a hedonistic test, but the higher
hedonism prevails against the lower: ignoble and impolitic to sit here
feasting while they are fighting, and we don't even know how it fares
with them, our allies. The style rises and is at times Pauline. St.
Paul, of course, is moving on a higher spiritual plane, but still--

C2.45, fin. The Education of Cyrus, Cyropaedia, {Keroupaideia}; the name
justified.

C2.46. Hystaspas' simple response: important, with other passages, to
show how naturally it came to them (i.e. the Hellenes and Xenophon)
to give a spiritual application to their rules of bodily and mental
training. These things to them are an allegory. The goal is lofty, if
not so sublime as St. Paul's or Comte's, the Christians or Positivists
(there has been an alteration for the better in the spiritual plane, and
Socrates helped to bring it about, I believe), but _ceteris paribus_,
the words of St. Paul are the words of Hystaspas and Xenophon. They for
a corruptible crown, and we for an incorruptible--and one might find a
still happier parable!

C2.46. Fine sentiment, this _noblesse oblige_ (cf. the archangelic
dignity in Milton, _Paradise Lost_, I think).

C2.47. The aristocratic theory (cf. modern English "nigger" theory,
Anglo-Indian, etc.).

C3.3. Xenophon's dramatic skill. We are made to feel the touch of
something galling in the manner of these Median and Hyrcanian troopers.

C3.4. A 'cute beginning rhetorically, because in the most graceful
way possible, and without egotism _versus_ Medes and Hyrcanians, it
postulates the Persian superiority, moral, as against the accidental
inferiority of the moment caused by want of cavalry and the dependence
on others which that involves. I suppose it's no reflection on Cyrus'
military acumen not to foreseen this need. It would have been premature
then, now it organically grows; and there's no great crisis to pass
through.

C3.11. I should have thought this was a dangerous argument; obviously
boys do learn bet