reasonableness (Kennedy), “sweet reasonableness” (Matthew Arnold, “Literature and Dogma,” pp. 66, 138). Courtesy is not far from the true idea. It is graciousness with strength and poise of character. It is the opposite of obstinacy. The word is not negative1 restraint simply, but positive giving up to the reasonable desires of others. It is the mildness of disposition that leads one to be fair and to go beyond the letter of the law. The best type of the ancients prided themselves on this trait