The concept of virtue, like most other concepts that have endured and remain worthy of praise, has come down to us from the Greeks and the Hebrews. If we lack virtue, we will not long continue to enjoy comfort-not in an age when Giant ldeology and Giant Envy swagger balefully about the world. Ln this essay I shall venture first to offer you a renewed apprehension of what “virtue” means and then to suggest how far it may be possible to restore an active virtue in our public and our private life. Are there men and women in America today of virtue sufficient to withstand and repel the forces of disorder? Or have we, as a people, grown too fond of creature-comforts and a fancied security to venture our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor in any cause at all? “The superior man thinks always of virtue,” Confucius told his disciples “the common man thinks of comfort.” Such considerations in recent years have raised up again that old word “virtue,” which in the first half of this century had sunk almost out of sight.
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