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Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book.
Obvious spelling errors have been corrected but "inventive" spelling is left unchanged. Apparently conflicting spelling is not resolved, as in "Gouraud" and "Gourand".
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LEONARD WOOD
THE CAREER OF LEONARD WOOD
BY
JOSEPH HAMBLEN SEARS
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
LONDON
1920
Copyright 1919 by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
TO GENERAL LEONARD WOOD
By Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Your vision keen, unerring when the blind, Who could not see, turned, groping, from the light. Your sentient knowledge of the wise and right Have won to-day the freedom of mankind. Honor to whom the honor be assigned! Mightier in exile than the men whose might Is of the sword alone, and not of sight. You march beside the victor host aligned. Had not your spirit soared, our ardent youth Had faltered leaderless; their eager feet Attuned to effort for the valiant truth Through your command rushed swiftly to compete To hold on high the torch of Liberty-- Great-visioned Soul, yours is the victory! November 11, 1918 From "Service and Sacrifice: Poems" Copyright. 1915. 1916. 1917. 1918. 1919. by Charles Scribner's Sons. By permission of the publishers.
CONTENTS
| I. | The Subject | 11 |
| II. | The Indian Fighter | 25 |
| III. | The Official | 51 |
| IV. | The Soldier | 77 |
| V. | The Organizer | 101 |
| VI. | The Administrator | 129 |
| VII. | The Statesman | 159 |
| VIII. | The Patriot | 201 |
| IX. | The Great War | 225 |
| X. | The Result | 257 |
THE SUBJECT
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I
THE SUBJECT
In these days immediately following the Great War it is well uponbeginning anything--even a modest biographical sketch--to consider afew elementals and distinguish them from the changing unessentials, tokeep a sound basis of sense and not be led into hysteria, to lookcarefully again at the beams of our house and not be deceived intothinking that the plaster and the wall paper are the supports of thebuilding.
Let us consider a few of these elementals that apply to the sub