You Gentiles
colleges in succession, or are attached to a number of regiments in succession? Or change your business, or your fraternity or your poker-club?"
It is clear to me that the very quality of loyalty and its place in your life again be-speaks the sport origin of your morality. The success of a football team depends not only on the physical aptitude and fitness of its members, but also on their spirit, their esprit de corps. There must be atmosphere for sporting effect: it is as important as physique and must be cultivated as assiduously, as carefully, as skilfully, as artificially. Whichever team you join, your loyalty is essential to its success and your loyalty must be instantaneous and unconditional, neither curtailed by delay nor mitigated by reflection. Your loyalty has nothing to do with ultimate moral values. It is part of the game—and life is to you a game, on the football field, in the college, in the factory, on the battlefield. "The Game" alone can make loyalty a transportable quality of this kind. "The Game"
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