The Moral Vision
The Bigger the Better
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What is meant here by ‘bigger’? In this context it
has nothing to do with being taller or stronger, but
signifies greater-hearted, broader-minded, and
more able than a smaller man’ to sustain injury or
insult without losing one’s composure. One’s
‘bigness’ here has to do not with physical
hardihood, but with moral courage.
