pictures and word effects, sees falsely the great general of the
future. He says:

"The Napoleon of the future will be an epileptic chess player,
carried about the field of battle on an air cushion."

In this condensed, picturesque fashion Mr. Zangwill expresses
sententiously a number of mistaken ideas. He thinks that the
game of war is like the game of chess, and that the future world
conqueror will be a great chess player, using men as pawns and
the world as his chess-board.

He observes the curious and interesting historical fact that of
the world's great conquerors many, including the two greatest,
Napoleon and Alexander, were afflicted with that mysterious
disease, epilepsy. He concludes that the great general of the
future will probably be a confirmed epileptic.

The ability of a fighting man to-day resides largely, of course,
in the brain. The general's MUSCLES no longer count as a
fighting factor. His battles are won or lost inside of his
SKULL. Mr. Zangwill concludes that the future great general will
have a mind developed to an abnormal extent at the expense of the
body--he sees in the future world conqueror an abnormal creature,
a giant brain perched on a miserable, wasted body, so feeble and
delicate that it must be carried about the field of battle on an
air cushion to prevent shocks. ----

The quotation from Zangwill which we print above contains only
twenty-one words. Rarely have so many errors, so many