ABSTRACT
The unconverted, says Augustine, are mere excrescences from the Church, in her, but not of her. In the same sense, soldiers’ children are mere excrescences from the army, tolerated, but not encouraged. So long as a certain proportion of our soldiers, about ten per cent, in each company, are permitted to marry, there must always, in the natural course of events, be a certain number of soldiers' children in the army, and it may not be uninteresting to know how these sons and daughters of the regiment are fed, trained, and educated.
