The Balance of the Gentleman

Following World War One and Two there developed a protest against the idea of the Gentleman as a social force. This was a big loss.

The Victorians had inherited some of the ideas of the gentleman and added to it. For example, Plato's Guardians defending the state when young and as magistrates and law-givers when old. The Romans with their “gravitas,” originally despising personal power, etc.

The ethos of the gentleman was balance, a balanced mind in a strong body, courage on the one hand, and desire for knowledge and beauty on the other hand. The Theoevolutionary Church would like to bring that balance back, as well as the balance between the old and the new, the conservative and the progressive, balance between the Inward and Outward Paths in religion with the Twofold Path.

Greek and Roman courage is once again called for in the growth of our worldview, but this is balanced with conservatism. Honor, integrity, wholeness, self-sufficiency, expecting not more, or less, than one deserves. And consideration for women once again, but this time taking into account sociobiologically defined gender---one sees a Spartan woman balanced with a refined lady, as a man is balanced between warrior and cultured gentleman.

The gentleman can continue into the future both culturally and genetically, by continually finding the able, the talented, the intelligent, the moral, from all the classes. Meritocracy is the savior in this, however, even  a Republic can include a hereditary aristocracy, as did the Roman Republic, or as the Founding Fathers of the United States, without establishing new monarchies.