The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

part threeThe Pagan andMasculine Virtues:Courage, with Temperanceno longer weeping for one anotheras achilles did in passionate grief,modern man has taught himselfthat tears are to be steeled againstin mute acceptance of his grief.thus, he grows less like achilles,and more like a man who may, himself,be cause for grief.—Helen McCloskey, “The Right Stuff”