This is the tremendous task that confronts the manhood of Christendom. The present missionary propaganda has certain features essentially masculine.
1913, Joseph Offord, The Imperial Annona in Egypt The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Volume 35, Number 4 (October - December 1913):
[…] the incidence of this tax in kind, which, utilized to feed the idle proletariat of the capital , tended so much to emasculate the manhood of Byzantium.
1913, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Excerpt from Savarkar's 1913 petition to the British seeking his release from imprisonment in the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands :
If the manhood of the nation be allowed to phase glories and responsibilities of the empire with perfect equality with other citizens of it, then Indian patriots of all shades and opinions can conscientiously feel that burning sense of loyalty that one feels for one's motherland.
The British soldiers like Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts knew that nothing less than the manhood of the nation under arms would create and maintain the large army which must be put in the field if the Central Powers were to be beaten.
1916, Sir Douglas Haig, Summation of the editorial letter sent to the editors of the main British newspapers by Sir Douglas Haig in May of 1916 :
Three years of war and the loss of one-tenth of the manhood of the nation is not too great a price to pay in so great a cause.
But for such footmen as thee and I are, let us never desire to meet with an enemy, nor vaunt as if we could do better, when we hear of others that they have been foiled, Nor be tickled at the thoughts of our own manhood; for such commonly come by the worst when tried.
I, for my part, have been in the fray before now; and though, through the goodness of him that is best, I am, as you see, alive, yet I cannot boast of my manhood.