Comments on: The distinctive feature of elite Victorian lifestyles was not laziness, but an extreme weighting toward what we might call team building and professional networking https://www.isegoria.net/2026/10/the-distinctive-feature-of-elite-victorian-lifestyles-was-not-laziness-but-an-extreme-weighting-toward-what-we-might-call-team-building-and-professional-networking/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Dan Kurt https://www.isegoria.net/2026/10/the-distinctive-feature-of-elite-victorian-lifestyles-was-not-laziness-but-an-extreme-weighting-toward-what-we-might-call-team-building-and-professional-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-3763030 Dan Kurt Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:29:00 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54813#comment-3763030 “Hely Hutchinson Almond, headmaster of Loretto School, who described his school’s priorities as ‘First – character, second…’”

A late professor of modern history told me that the German military from the reforms in the early 19th century until its defeat in WW2 tried to select its officers under the chief criterion of one’s Character.

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