The Code of Man: Love Courage Pride Family Country"In many ways," Waller R. Newell writes, "young men today are in deep spiritual trouble. But they are also yearning for a way back to the noblest ideals of American manhood." The Code of Man represents a deep and thought-provoking effort to help guide contemporary men back to those ideals, as embodied in what Newell calls the five paths to manliness: love, courage, pride, family, and country. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he argues, we have grown so concerned about the roles of sex and violence in our society that we have forgotten the older virtues: romance and eros, courage and patriotism, the blend of love and bravery it takes to raise a family. In The Code of Man, he exhorts us to look to the traditional virtues of the past for inspiration. Contrasting the time-honored lessons of traditional voices -- Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln, Jane Austen and Teddy Roosevelt -- with the chaotic signals emanating from sources like Eminem, video games like Thrill Kill, and Goth culture, Newell illustrates how we have come to associate courage with violence, "transgression" with wisdom. Most disturbing, he argues, the essential triumph of Western culture may have left us with a building reserve of untapped aggressive energy, and no consensus about how to channel it -- a situation that threatens to weaken us at the core. Seamlessly weaving together literary references from a diverse body of sources, Waller Newell offers an open-eyed look at what it means to be a man in America today, and a clarion call to recapture our traditions if we are to preserve our character as a society ... and avoid catastrophe. |
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... comes one small brick in an electronically simulated world of virtual normality . And yet , every so often the baffled longing for love breaks through . You can cut human nature off from its sources of guidance , but you can't get rid ...
... comes accustomed to performing many services gracefully for everyone . O what a wonderful thing is love , which makes a man shine with so many virtues and teaches everyone , no matter who he is , so many good traits of character ! A man ...
... come a long way from St. Augustine ! Cesare's next point will please many readers of my generation and give them some verbal ammunition for the ever - increasing number of horny young whippersnappers who surround us , roaring past us Love ...
... restrain the perversity of sense with the bridle of reason ; which the old can do much more easily than the young . So throw away that Viagra and read a book ! THE ROMANTIC LOVER Finally , we come to Romanticism , 26 THE CODE OF MAN.
... come to Romanticism , the great modern watershed of eros . Beginning in the eighteenth century with Jean - Jacques Rousseau , the Romantic writers try to find a modern replacement for the almost van- ished traditions of chivalry ...
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