There is a distinction between public and domestic courtesy. The root principle of both is the same: that no one give any kind of preference to himself. But the more public the occasion, the more our obedience to this has been taped or formalized. There are rules of good manners. In public a ritual will do. At home you must have the reality which that ritual represented, or else the deafening triumphs of the greatest egoist present. You must really give no kind of preference to yourself...those who leave their manners behind them when they come home from the dance or the party have no real courtesy even there. They were merely aping those who had...
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:55:28 +0000
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