For this reason I shall examine, by what has passed of late years in these nations, whether experience have convinced us, that officers bred in foreign wars be so far preferable to others who have been under no other discipline than that of an ordinary and ill-regulated militia; and if the commonality of both kingdoms, at their first entrance upon service, be not as capable of a resolute military action, as any standing forces. p. 44-45 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Political_Works_of_Andrew_Fletcher_E/Z4g2AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA44

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "For this reason I shall examine, by what has passed of late years in these nations, whether experience have convinced us, that officers bred in foreign wars be so far preferable to others who have been under no other discipline than that of an ordinary and ill-regulated militia; and if the commonality of both kingdoms, at their first entrance upon service, be not as capable of a resolute military action, as any standing forces. p. 44-45 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Political_Works_of_Andrew_Fletcher_E/Z4g2AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA44" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.