It is true, of course, that Germany buys large quantities of food-stuffs from abroad, and that home produce will be required to take their place; but they cannot be grown immediately; in the interval, industrial disorganisation must result, and before agriculture can begin to profit by the lack of foreign supplies the harm will have been done.

A great deal has been made of the disorganisation in the French navy consequent on the confusion of the Revolution.

That there was disorganisation is undoubted; that it did impair discipline and, consequently, general efficiency will not be disputed; but that it was considerable enough to account by itself for the French naval defeats is altogether inadmissible.

Yet no one even alleges that there was disorder or disorganisation in the French fleet at the date of anyone of those affairs.

Indeed, if the French navy was really disorganised in 1794, it would have been better for Francejudging from the events of 1798 and 1805if the disorganisation had been allowed to continue.

That this disorganisation did not arise is proved by the fact that our merchant service flourished and expanded.

Disorganisation of Government

The division caused in the National Guard by the Coup d'Etat of the Central Committee had for its consequence the disorganisation of all command.

The news from the front was good; during the last few days the German offensive had wavered; strange signs of weakness began to appear; and well-founded rumours made it evident that there was a secret disorganisation in the formidable mass.

For Germany, her mind already fixed on securing Turkey as an instrument of her Eastern policy, wanted a strong Turkey, and without doubt desired to bring an end to the disorganisation and decay of the Empire, and create and at the same time interpenetrate an efficient state that should be useful to her.

In a medical book now before me the subject is put tersely thus: "Health and strength depend on rapid disorganisation, and rapid disorganisation depends on rapid exertion.

In a medical book now before me the subject is put tersely thus: "Health and strength depend on rapid disorganisation, and rapid disorganisation depends on rapid exertion.

It may mean simply an ebb of vigour on both sides, unusual hardship, a general social and economic disorganisation and grading down.

It was also, because of that and because of the changed social and religious spirit, a period of great social disorganisation and confused impulses.

Since the Coronation we have moved very rapidly indeed from an assurance of extreme social stability towards the recognition of a spreading disorganisation.

It organised disorganisation.

New ideas, however ardently preached, will dissolve no society which was not already in a condition of profound disorganisation.

If he is up to his duties he is a most valuable servant; if he neglects them he is a costly nuisance, not so much from his pay, but because of the hindrance and disorganisation of the whole farm-work which such neglect entails.

Never had the efficiency of the Union Cavalry been at such a low ebb; but it was low-water mark, indeed, and matters were destined to mend after a history of nearly two years of neglect, disorganisation, and misuse.

Our high-pressure life of emergencies, our whirling industrial organisation or disorganisation have brought us in this (as in most things) their peculiar difficulties and drawbacks.

In the confusions and sins and divisions of the last fifteen centuries, profound disorganisation had fastened on the Western Church.

You wander helplessly in the road of life until you stumble against a battery; nerved with the shock you are frantic, and rush along wildly until the current received is exhausted, and you lapse into disorganisation.

The disorganisation of the Democratic party, after a cohesion of so many years, at length changed the aspect of affairs; and the North appeared to be about to arouse itself from its apathetic consent to Southern domination.