Sunlight and shadow; . us — TheDandy — Consequences of a Useless Life — Career of Beau Brum-mell — The Fop in a Breach-of-Promise Suit — Influence of Societyupon, us — Example better than Precept — Value of a Noble Life —Ministers and the Half-price — Genius no Substitute for Moral Prin-ciple — Burnss Perverted Genius — The Painter Haydon. VERY young man considers it highpraise to be called a manly fellow;and yet how many false ideas there areof manliness! Physical strength is notthe test. Samson was endowed with tre-mendous bodily powers. He was a grandspecimen of humanity. See him rendingthe
Sunlight and shadow; . us — TheDandy — Consequences of a Useless Life — Career of Beau Brum-mell — The Fop in a Breach-of-Promise Suit — Influence of Societyupon, us — Example better than Precept — Value of a Noble Life —Ministers and the Half-price — Genius no Substitute for Moral Prin-ciple — Burnss Perverted Genius — The Painter Haydon. VERY young man considers it highpraise to be called a manly fellow;and yet how many false ideas there areof manliness! Physical strength is notthe test. Samson was endowed with tre-mendous bodily powers. He was a grandspecimen of humanity. See him rendingthe lion as he would a kid, or carrying awaythe gates of Gaza! But he was a weak creature afterall, unable to resist the wiles of an artful woman. Great intellect is not the test of true of the most intellectual men who have everlived were not manly. Francis, Lord Bacon, was aprodigy of intellect, — the Sciences sat at his feet ex-tolling him as their benefactor; yet we see him led 178. YICE IS UNMAJSXY. 179 down Tower Hill a prisoner for swindling! Was hemanly when as Lord Chancellor he took with onehand £300, and with the other £400 from the op-posing suitor, and then gave judgment in favor of the£400? See him enter his prison, convicted of bribery,fraud, and deceit! Was he, with his great intellect,manly? Fast living is not manliness. Some men think thatto strut, and to swagger, and puff, and swear, andbecome an adept in vice, is to be manly. To some,the essentials of manliness are to * toss off their glasslike a man, spend money freely like a man, standup in a fight like a man, smoke like a man, drivea fast horse like a man; forgetting that virtue istrue manliness. Temperance, chastity, truthfulness,fortitude, benevolence, are characteristics and essen-tials of manliness. There is no manliness in sin of any kind. Vice isessentially unmanly. Just so far as evil habits areconnected with what are called manly sports, degrada-tion follows. T
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