Commodore Schley was directed to call off Charleston for orders; for, while it is essential to have a settled strategic idea in any campaign, it is also necessary, in maritime warfare, at all events, to be ready to change a purpose suddenly and to turn at once upon the great objective,-which dominates and supersedes all others,-the enemy's navy, when a reasonable prospect of destroying it, or any large fraction of it, offers.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
This new and more vital conception which supersedes the old mythological modes of thought is not altogether independent of them.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
By their own efforts they are to promote co-operation till, if possible, it supersedes the present wages system entirely; equality of wages for men and women for equal work; a general eight hours day through a general strike; and a system of arbitration in trade quarrels.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae