Show LEES IDEA OF A GENTLEMAN great southerners high ideals deals shown by memorandum found among hla his papers lee hated parade dig display play and ceremony hated above RII all things being made an object of public bublic gaze anti and adulation ula tion declares de clarea a writer in the atlantic ills idea of high position was high responsibility i a superior was simply oue one who had bad jarger larger duties mid and Ab emarl iota a genil Ken lUman maa was a keen been sense bt tho the feelings and e pil bill ties ot of others no one has ever expressed this at more delicately than he himself in a memorandum found among his papers after his death the forbearing use ot of power does not only form a touchstone but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages cover over others la Is a test of a true gentleman the power which the strong have over the weak the magistrate over the citizen the employer over the employed the educated over the unlettered the experienced over the confiding eve even en the clever ov erthe silly tho the forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it will show the gentleman in a plain light the gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he ha may have committed against him ile he cannot only forgive lie he can forget and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past A true man of honor feels bled himself when he be cannot help bell h humbling others |