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118 consideration can be of such paramount importance to him as victualling and supplying his troops, which the wholesale destruction of private property, would render impossible. Moreover the whole argument is founded on a false analogy. War on land means the invasion of enemy's land, followed often by the permanent conquest of his provinces;—this is the essence of war on land, it can mean nothing else. But this, from the nature of the case, is impossible at sea. There is nothing there to invade and nothing to conquer. If therefore warfare at sea is to follow the exact analogy of warfare on land, there is absolutely nothing whatever for it to do. But if invasion is of the essence of military war, banishing enemies' commerce from the sea, or seizing it "in transitu," has always been of the essence of naval warfare; and if you wish for a true analogy, and are bent on abolishing naval warfare, put an end at the same time to military warfare,