Subtle..................................

The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead argued, "Moral education is impossible without the habitual vision of greatness."  In 1943, Richard Winn Livingstone wrote, "One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character;  more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.  We detect in others, and occasionally in ourselves, the want of courage, of industry, of persistence, which leads to defeat.  But we do not notice the more subtle and disastrous weakness, that our standards are wrong, that we have never learned what is good."

-David Brooks,  The Road To Character, as extracted from his chapter on George C. Marshall