Before the man can be manly, the gifts which make him so
must be there, collected by him slowly, unconsciously, as are his
bones, his flesh, and his blood. They cannot be put on like a garment
for the nonce,--as may a little learning. A man cannot become
faithful to his friends, unsuspicious before the world, gentle with
women, loving with children, considerate to his inferiors, kindly
with servants, tender-hearted with all,--and at the same time be
frank, of open speech, with springing eager energies,--simply because
he desires it. These things, which are the attributes of manliness,
must come of training on a nature not ignoble. But they are the very
opposites, the antipodes, the direct antagonism, of that staring,
posed, bewhiskered and bewigged deportment, that _nil admirari_,
self-remembering assumption of manliness, that endeavour of twopence
halfpenny to look as high as threepence, which, when you prod it
through, has in it nothing deeper than deportment. We see the two
things daily, side by side, close to each other.
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