"Every boy and youth is, in his mind and sentiments, a knight, andessentially a son of chivalry. Nature is fine in him.... As long asthere have been, or shall be, young men to grow up to maturity; anduntil all youthful life shall be dead, and its source withered forever; so long must there have been, and must there continue to be, thespirit of noble chivalry. To understand therefore this first and, asit were, natural chivalry, we have only to observe the features of theyouthful age, of which examples surround us."
EDWARD FITZGERALD.