Chapter 45 (1/1)
Chapter 45: Genuine nobility
Lan Jue’s voice grewthe classroom Every eye was on hiations found that sailors had jumped in to lifeboats two and six However, when their co officer called them back they wordlessly returned to the deck to perform their duty”
“A famous writer later explained it thusly; It was due to an ideal instilled in them at birth, the ideal that duty was to be considered above all else In the hours before the sinking of the titanic, this illusive ideal was proved by their strength of moral character’”
“Indeed it was this spirit of responsibility that e Henry Cavill turn around and return to the Number Four Boiler Room He had made his way up, but returned to see if any of his fellow boiler men were still trapped; It was this spirit of responsibility that kept signales in Morse code, even when all was beyond hope; It was this spirit of responsibility thatremain behind so that others could take his place, and waited until the last possiblethe boat in to the water; It was this spirit of responsibility wireless operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride eently in the radio room until the very last minute when Captain S the away at that radio to send death tolls, dispatches and final wishes; It was this spirit of responsibility that filled Chief Engineer Joseph Bell and all under his charge when they toiled in the engine rooiven up any chance for escape; It was this spirit of responsibility channeled by band leader Wallace Henry Hartley and others of his band when they played their ragti in their sole waters drowned theirthis simply ‘bravery’ does not do it justice There is a Western proverb that states: ‘Even heroes will be cowards in a hopeless situation’ But the titanic shows us that the myriad of common people can be heroes! This spirit of responsibility lifts hunified, makes us beautiful”
“That is nobility! In my eyes, each one of theathered to discuss who lives and who passed, and discovered that the number of female survivors far outnumbered males They attributed it to the success of the rule “women and children first” However, the company who had launched the titanic stated that there were nocare of the weak, and had no bearing on whether it was at sea or on dry land This was a choice made of their own volition, not the requirements of some institutionalized law It was an adherence to those ancient and eternal human values”
“At that time multi-e of the lifeboat if he could join his pregnant life onboard the skiff The crew hientle and sat quietly on the deck, until the shi+p sunk, and it’s smokestack smashed in to the Atlantic ocean Alistor was the only multi-millionaire on the titanic, and was in fact one of the richest h money to build eleven titanics”
“The titanic’s captain, Sood relationshi+p with nearly all the rich and powerful aboard his vessel Not a feere his good friends, including Alistor But even though Alistor knew Se, to pull strings and get hiood a reason as you can ask for, as his as five ht didn’t even cross his s, but instead a ti a true enuine nobility!”
“Another man with riches only surpassed by Astor hi aboard the titanic that day, na with his wife, and the two had brought over a dozen servants and attendants with theet a sense of their wealth and lifestyle After the shi+p had collided with that ice burg Madaht lifeboat, but the ed her mind She returned to her husband, and said, ‘We have been living together forwoman, and threw her fur coat to theit,’ she said”
“So ‘I pro in to this boat’ Straus’ response; ‘Far be it forhis wife Ida’s arered away to sit upon a pair of deckchairs, an affectionate couple spending their final nate Benjah His response was to don his finest dining jacket He said ‘I wish to die with dignity, like a gentleman’ He handed his female companion a slip of paper upon which he’d written; Not a woman remains on this shi+p because I have helped them in to the lifeboats myself I will not die like an animal, but I will instead die like a man I am nobility!’”
The stories ended, and Lan Jue’s eyes had grown , but were full of an enthusiasm that had infected everyone in the room
“I cannot know if you will be called noble in the future, but I stand here today as an instructor of the National Eastern University, and in this first class it is my duty to teach you – what is the noble spirit”
“It doesn’t not mean riches, for not all wealthy are noble Nor is it possible to purchase with riches! If one day you all can stand tall, raise your head and call yourself nobility, then I would be filled with pride!”
According to my research all of these stories appear to be true The author credits parts of this story to Danny Allen Butler’s Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS titanic