Hear me, true and noble knights who remain loyal to our King.

Head my words in God's name, for what I have to say is vital.

Since we're about to take up arms in defense of our names, our land, our lives, and the

lives of those we love, our wives, our children, and to win the greatest honor and to restore

the peace of holy church which our enemies have shattered and violated, and to earn redemption

and forgiveness for all our sins, be sure that none of you lacks courage this day.

All right, that stirring speech is from William, the martial or William marshals, a call

to arms, call to the troops before the battle of Lincoln.

We have been talking about shivill here on young heretics, a much-mulligned concept.

Since this show is the classical education that you were never knew you were missing,

we set out to ask just what is shivillery?

It's something that people seem to really want to know a lot about, but it's also something

that there doesn't seem to be a lot of good information about in popular culture.

It's been called a disguise for sexism.

It's been called the outdated idealism.

I've been arguing on this show that shivillery is none of those things.

It is a tradition of masculine excellence which exists to shape the raw material of manhood

and direct the basic facts about what men are like as one half of the human population

created in the image of God.

Men have certain tendencies, things like aggression and dominance and aspiration to protect

and to provide.

Shivillery is a tool.

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