Here, we are given to think of Plutarch's report of,"The Spartan mother who bids her son, as she gives him his shield, 'return with it, or on it' ". [Plutarch]

With protection of women folk, the importance of racial quality is touched upon, something recognised right up to Nietzsche;"Having political supremacy without true human supremacy is the greatest detriment".[Nietzsche, Nachlass 1874]

The Nation is the Macrocosm, and the National Man is the Microcosm;

"O England! model to thy inward greatness,Like little body with a mighty heart,What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,Were all thy children kind and natural ! "
[Shakespeare, KHV,ii.Prol.]