Pop quiz. Who said the following?
The Nation is in a bad way if there is no real home, if the family is not of the right kind; if the man is not a good husband and father, if he is brutal or cowardly or selfish, if the woman has lost her sense of duty, if she is sunk in vapid self-indulgence or has let her nature be twisted so that she prefers sterile pseudo-intellectuality to that great and beautiful development of character which comes only to those whose lives know the fullness of duty done, or effort made and self-sacrifice undergone.
That would be Theodore Roosevelt, and it is one among many fabulous selections included in political scientist Waller R. Newell's anthology What Is a Man? 3,000 Years of Wisdom on the Art of Manly Virtue -- newly published by ReganBooks. THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to note that this 800-page volume had its birth in Newell's August 3, 1998, WEEKLY STANDARD essay, "The Crisis of Manliness." But all congratulations are due to him alone.