their careers, there are no prizes which will stand comparison for a moment with a very moderate degree of prosperity in the world of trade or finance. They cannot even be compared with the prizes 杭州不正规的洗脚的地方 open to the bar or the medical profession.

Hitherto we have obtained our officers largely

owing to a firmly rooted tradition among the country gentlemen and the military families—neither as a rule rich men, or even very easy in their circumstances as things go nowadays—many of them very poor—a tradition so strong that it is not cant, but plain truth, to call it sense of duty. There are other motives, of course, which may lead a boy to choose this profession—love of adventure, comparative freedom from indoor life, pleasant comradeship, and in the case of the 杭州小巷子按摩 middle classes, recently risen to affluence, social aspirations. But even in the last there is far more good than harm; though in anti-militarist circles it is the unworthy aim which is usually dwelt upon with {392} a sneering emphasis. For very often, when a man has risen from humble 杭州男子养生 circumstances to a fortune, he rejoices that his sons should serve the state, since it is in his power to make provision. The example of his neighbours, whose ancestors have been living on their acres since the days of the Plantagenets or the Tudors, is a noble example; and he 杭州男士养生SPA is wise to follow it.

In the case of the rank and file of our army, a contract for a term of years (with obligations continuing for a further term of years) is entered into, and signed, under the circumstances which have already been considered. We are faced here with a phenomenon 杭州水磨服务会所 which seems strange in an Age which has conceded the right to ‘down tools,’ even though by so doing a solemn engagement is broken—in an Age which has become very fastidious about hiring agreements of most kinds, very suspicious of anything suggestive of ‘servile conditions’ or ‘forced 杭州洗浴桑拿验证 labour,’ and which deprecates the idea of penalising breach of contract, on the part of a workman, even by process in the civil courts.

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acts, the terms of which are simple and drastic—in {393} peace time imprisonment, in war time death. Without these means of enforcing the ‘voluntary’ system the British 杭州西湖阁最新 people would not feel themselves safe.

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