Practical paradoxes; by Trumbull Henry Clay 1830-1903

Author:Trumbull, Henry Clay, 1830-1903. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conduct of life
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. D. Wattles
Published: 1889-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

conception of the term, " gentleness" has never acquired the taint of an evil report. While often improperly looked upon as expressive of a passive, if not indeed of a negative, virtue, it has never been counted an ignoble attribute.

Contrasting the two words "gentle" and "tame," Crabbesays: "In the moral application, gentle is always employed in the good, and tame in the bad, sense: a gentle spirit needs no control, it amalgamates freely [when it so chooses] with the will of another: a tame spirit is without any will of its own; it is alive to nothing but submission. . . . Gentle bespeaks something positively good; tame bespeaks the want of an essential good: the former is allied to the kind, the latter to the abject and mean, qualities—which naturally flow from the compression or destructi(?n of energy and will in the agent." Gentleness is everywhere recognized as consistent with great strength and force of character, even though it be not always counted as an evidence of it—as in truth it might be.

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