COURAGE IS A FEELING, LIKE FEAR. THE LATTER LOOKS TO PHYSICAL PRESERVATION, COURAGE TO THE MORAL PRESERVATION. COURAGE IS NO MERE COUNTERPOISE TO DANGER IN ORDER TO NEUTRALIZE THE LATTER IN ITS EFFECTS, BUT A PECULIAR POWER IN ITSELF.
THE SOLDIER IS LEVIED, CLOTHED, ARMED, EXERCISED, HE SLEEPS, EATS, DRINKS AND MARCHES, ALL MERELY TO FIGHT AT THE RIGHT PLACE AND AT THE RIGHT TIME.