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Updated: July 14, 2025
Oh, aye! the cloister pump, I suppose!" Touching Boyer's cruelty, Coleridge adds that his "severities, even now, not seldom furnish the dreams by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep." "The discipline at Christ's Hospital in my time," he says, "was ultra-Spartan; all domestic ties were to be put aside.
Does this ultra-Spartan system of "drilling the nerves" strike the modern pedagogist with horror and doubt doubt whether the tendency would not be brutalizing, nipping in the bud the tender emotions of the heart? Let us see what other concepts Bushido had of Valor. The spiritual aspect of valor is evidenced by composure calm presence of mind. Tranquillity is courage in repose.
On the increase and maintenance of that real power, his chief thoughts were concentrated; new dispositions generated by kingship, which had never shown themselves in him before. Despising, like Lysander, both money, luxury, and all the outward show of power, he exhibited, as a king, an ultra-Spartan simplicity, carried almost to affectation in diet, clothing, and general habits.
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