The Old World Show(@theoldworldshow):“To lead, Lee well understood, one first had to be the master of oneself. Original Sin taught him to expect human failure. But a Christian and a gentleman was obligated to do better. Lee believed that the more one surmounted the baser passions of human nature, the more one approached the divine, the more one successfully imitated Christ, the more one fulfilled one's duty as a Christian gentleman. It was a hierarchical understanding that fit his background and upbringing and that he saw expressed and experienced in the reality of nature, social classes, the army, and the church.” -Robert E Lee on Leadership by Crocker III

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“To lead, Lee well understood, one first had to be the master of oneself. Original Sin taught him to expect human failure. But a Christian and a gentleman was obligated to do better. Lee believed that the more one surmounted the baser passions of human nature, the more one approached the divine, the more one successfully imitated Christ, the more one fulfilled one's duty as a Christian gentleman. It was a hierarchical understanding that fit his background and upbringing and that he saw expressed and experienced in the reality of nature, social classes, the army, and the church.” -Robert E Lee on Leadership by Crocker III