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The Devil: And these are the creatures in whom you discover what you call a Life Force! / Don Juan: Yes; for now comes the most surprising part of the whole business. / The Statue: What's that? / Don Juan: Why, that you can make any of these cowards brave by simply putting an idea into his head. / The Statue: Stuff! As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little. But that about putting an idea into a man's head is stuff and nonsense. In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. / Don Juan: That is perhaps why battles are so useless. But men never really overcome fear until they imagine they are fighting to further a universal purpose -- fighting for an idea, as they call it. / - Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Two Dog Teams (Meares and Dimitri) turned back from the bottom of the Beardmore Glacier on December 11, 1911. They reached Hut Point on January 4, 1912.