Puritan Idea Of A Gentleman

In an address on the two hundred and fiftieth an:iversary of the settlement of New Haven, Williarn L. Kingsley says: "The Puritana gave to the world a new idea of what it is to be a gentleman. With the views respectin?; manhood, which they received froni the Bible, they conceived a new idea as to what is the proper way to treat others. Polished manners and a gracious deportment to one's equaLs is not enongh, according to the Puri tan idea. A man niay 'smileand smile and be a vülain.' There should be such delicacy of perception of the rights and feelings of others as to lead a person not only to avoid giving ciïense to any, high or low, bnt the perception should be accompanied by such a treatment of all as reveáis a friendly feeling. "This idea of a gentleman didnot exist before the time of the Puritana. I do not say that there were not persons who had snch a character. But Shakespeare uses the word 'gentleman' more tlian fivo hundred times, and not once to desígnate aaything more than a person of high social position. One of the most eloquent English essayists of modem times, Rev. Charles Kiugsley, a dignitary of the Angücan church, says that 'Puntan and not the cavalier conception of what a British gentleman should be is the one accepted by the whole British nation at this aay.' " - Magazine of American History, Woman may be the weaker vessel, but Bhe isn't broken up and doesn't go to pieces as soon as man. - "Five Talents of Woman."