Do Manners Matter Anymore? | RealClearReligion
We have become a nation of rude people. Does that matter? I actually think it does because there is a link between manners and morals.
As a grandfather of three little children, it’s so important to teach them to engage in good manners, to be grateful. …
I believe there really is a link between manners and morals. William Wilberforce, the great 18th-19th century Christian statesman, who spent his lifetime championing the cause of abolishing the slave trade and slavery in the British Empire as a longtime Member of Parliament, was also engaged in a lesser-known crusade.
He and other reformers in pre-Victorian England pushed for what they called “the reformation of manners.” The modern translation of that would be “the reformation of morals.”
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