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No calling demands a higher mental and physical standard in the men employed. No calling has given any better service to civilization and to humanity. No calling has any right to higher consideration or greater honor, none has given or is giving more important service in peace or war. In the days of chivalry the men of the sea had a right to and did participate in its highest honors.

Through The Ages.

Sea power has at all times meant World power. Control over the sea has at all times brought independence and wealth. Sea power was always in the seamen. The vessels (the tools used) have been altered and improved upon as experience and knowledge increased. But the sea has remained unchanged through all the ages. So also the seamen. The qualities of mind and body that were needed in the seamen of the earliest times are yet needed and there can be no real seamen where those qualities are not. The sea has been a prison wall to the weak and timid, a highway to the strong and a field of honor to the daring and venturesome among men. The sea has no affinity with bondage and whether it was in trade, in discovery, or in battle the victory was to the free.

The sea power of the Nordic Race was developed in freedom. The seamen of this race knew nothing of bondage as applied to themselves. The common hazzard made them loyal to each other and ready to obey orders from their leaders. They were patient of discipline, impatient of bondage. The sea power of the North developed in and by this spirit grew strong enough to meet and overcome the sea power of Rome, which had destroyed the sea power of Carthage, whose seamen were and felt themselves to be less free. The South of Europe never knew the kind of freedom that was the very breath of life with the people of the North. The seamen of the South always shared in that misfortune with other people of the South.

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Nazwa: A Message to Seamen A Call to the Sea and to Seamanship (Classic Reprint)
Autor: America International Seamen's Union o
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332156955
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 40
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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