The problems now raised are admittedly incapable of solution a priori, but the difference between the two schools of thinkers is instructive, as bearing upon the extent to which those who belong to one or the other school would incline towards measures of precaution against abuses of the novel art.
Holland discusses the instructive differences between two schools of thought regarding precautionary measures in aerial warfare.
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