Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1920 — A Gentleman. [ARTICLE]

A Gentleman.

It appears that the most general idea which people have formed of a gentleman is that of a person of fortune above the vulgar, and embellished by manners that are fashionable in high life. In this case, fortune and fashion are the two constituent ingredients in the composition of modern gentlemen; for whatever the fashion may be, whether moral or immoral, for or against reason, right or wrong. It is equally the duty of a gentleman to conform. And yet I apprehend that true gentility is altogether independent of fortune or fashion, of time, customs, or opinions of any kind. The very same qualities that constituted a gentleman in the first age of the- world, are permanently Invariable and indispensably necessary to the constitution of the same character to the end of time. —Henry Brooke.