officer, moreover, who is keenly in sympathy with the person that he has just been describing.) He adds:
Are thieving, and lying, and looting, and bestial talk very bad things? If they are, Tommy is a bad man. But for some reason or other, since I got to know him, I have thought rather less of the iniquity of these things than I did before.
I do not know which of the two passages that I have quoted is the more striking commentary on the moral influence of military training; that such