"Every true man," as Milton says, "is born a knight," diligently as we endeavor to stub up this royal root, constantly, as from the very nursery, we endeavor to train it out of him.

You may deny the truth and go on some theory of your own in the training of your boys, but the truth cannot deny itself.

It is _there_, whether you will have it or not, a root of the tree of life itself.
Now there is not a day that need pass without opportunities of training your boys in this their true knightly attitude.

You can see, as I have already said, that they learn in relation to their own sisters what in after years they have to practise towards all women alike.

To give up the comfortable easy-chair, the favorite book or toy, the warmest place by the fire, to the little sister--this ought to become a second nature to a well-trained boy.