50 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. CHAP, aggravated apparently by the empty ceremonies of military duty in peace-time ; for to go on re- hearsing men day after day, and year after year, in the art of giving and taking pretended alarms about nothing, and to carry on these rehearsals by means of formulated sentences, is to do all that perverted industry can towards preventing, in- stead of securing, the ' bright look-out ' of the seaman. The relation that there is between standing armies and war bears analogy to that which con- nects endowed Churches with religion ;* and, in particular, the Anglican arrangements for secur- ing the infant mind against heresy show a curious resemblance to those which are made during peace for preventing surprises in war-time. "Whether aiming at the one or the other of these objects, man tries to secure it by formula. Just as through the means of set questions and answers, the anxious theologian arms children against ' false doctrine,' in the trust that, when they come to riper years, they may know how to treat his opponents, so also with him who makes rules for the governance of soldiers in peace-time, the hope,
- I have been justly reminded by Dean Stanley that the prac-
tice of arming young creatures with dogma is not at all confined to established churches ; and, as now corrected, I agree that, although not furnished by the State, any funds provided for a particular worship in a continuous, chronic way, have a tend- ency to produce the effect mentioned in the text. It seems that in some of the churches got up by subscription the theology professed by the children is much more bold and violent than that which obtains in our Anglican nurseries. — Note to 3d Edition.
