Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — Moral Courage. [ARTICLE]

Moral Courage.

If there is any one quality of the mind in which the really great have conspired, as it were, to surpass other men, it is moral courage. In private life what daily deceit would be avoided, what evils would b£ remedied if we did but possess more moral courage—not that false image of it which proceeds from a blind and inconsiderate rashness, from an absence both of forethought and imagination; but that calm reliance on the decisions of reason, that carelessness of the undeserved applause of our neighbors which will induce the great man to act according to his own informed judgment and not according to the opinions of those who will not r know, and who could never appreciate his motives. '