Even at fourteen years of age the proportion of feeling and physical to
intellect is as six to one. Where have you ever heard of a general who
went out to fight a war with ten thousand men when his enemy had sixty
thousand? He might make a momentary dash with such a force, but in the
end he would be overcome. Still we allow our children to grow up with
these odds against them and we seem to be entirely thoughtless as to
the danger they are in.