Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-14
RARELY COMBINED.
PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE Sell
DOM FOUND IN ONE PERSON.

Meaning Of Physical Courage-Its Re
wards aud Dem ands-Loftier Motive O
Moral Courage and the Injury That Il
Often Brings Upon Its Possessor.
1t is rare thing to meet a person
either man or woman, who combines in
one both physical and moral courage
Mental courage is frequent thing-to
dare to have opinions, to dare to follow
ont their consequences in ones mind
and its absence is always pitiable where
1.-THE poor heart would fain DENY. but
dare not" But moral courage is a far
rarer quality, aud is as much higher
than physical courage as the soul is
higher than the body. Physical courage
Is indeed the commonest of the virtues.
Most soldiers have it who go into battle;
most mothers have it as they approach
the great gates Of maternity; the child
has 1t who goes to bed in the dark: the
boy who challenges the bigger boy to
fight; the girl who drives the cattle
home
1t Is true there is something that masses
for physical courage which is not that
at all, and which, if it is not exactly
moral courage either, is courage that
deserves a name of its own--a disregard
OF ones lower self, pride of ones loft
her self, that is far nobler than any mere
fearlessness, which a dog can share
and that is the experience of a deadly
terror before any act, but the doing
it nevertheless, concealing the terror
and achieving the result. There is the
heroism in that which takes one to the
stake.
Physical courage is apt to demand ap-
plause, but moral courage leaves every
consideration but truth in the back
ground, and is more likely to bring one
ostracism than admiration. With moral
courage one speaks ones mind, one goes
forward to ones conception of duty, one
treads ones chosen way without the
thought, and SO without the fear. of con-
sequences, or even if with the fear. still
tFeads it just the same.
One does not pause to measure the
possible effect upon ones self. One does
and says what right and the moment re-
qulre. One is not intimidated by the
frown, the brutal word, the threat. the
blow, the probable loss of prestige. the
force OF any contrary opinion, public or
private, the possible deprivation of Office |
Or OF position. One has what has long
been known as the courage of ones con- ]
and does what one thinks is
r1ght or best or even only expedient,
without regard to fear or favor.
The moral courage that dares to con-
tradict the village bully dares no less to
ell king that he is in the wrong.
iares TO arrest the wretch who, whip in
land, abuses his beast-being more
)east than the other; dares, too. ia
shield the culprit from the strong arm,
o interpose ones self between the vic.
I'M and the oppressor, whether the vic.
I'm be child in school or a whole peo.
Die; dareS always to resist tyranny. II
ias been physical courage of course
hat has fought the great battles of the
probably, that the world
ould as well have done without had ar
ltratlon been known-but it is moral
ourage that has instigated and carried
onward every reform, and done away
nth every oppression that has already
anished.
After all, moral courage does more
Or Its possessor than for any one else
he brutes of the field have physical
ourage, but the other belongs only
mong the altitudes-iifts and expands
he soul that has it and that uses it. and
Iakes it, one dares to think, only a lit
lower than the angels. They that
ave 1t never know when they are beat
4 In fact, they cannot be beaten. They
turn to the attack with all the pristine
gor of the first onset, with all the
rec that first impelled them.
Women, with their feeble bodies and
sufhcient means of protection or of as
ult, are VIGOROUSLY deficient in ami
al courage, that valiant courage and
ldaunted spirit more than in woman
is SEEM" but they are lust as
'torlously rich in the opposite direc- a
On, and possessed of great moral cour
'e-that is, the women Of the nobler
TT. 1t is they that uphold the hands
others, they that never falter in their
Irpose, they that will die for their
We OF their belief-not they alone. but
ey in the greater number. Ana il ia
ey that, by handing this trait down to
err sons, will lift the race constantly
greater heights of righteous VIII and
ength. -Harper's Bazaar.