Chapter 45: True Aristocrats! (3 more recommended)
Lan Jue's increasingly passionate voice echoed in the classroom, and everyone was listening intently, and there was no other voice other than him.
"According to later investigations, only the crew members of lifeboats No. 6 and No. 2 jumped in, but they were immediately spotted by the officials in charge there and told them to come out, and they obeyed the order to return to the deck without saying anything."
"A famous writer once said, 'This is because they were born with the ideal that responsibility is more important than other considerations, that responsibility and discipline are synonymous, and that in the hours before the sinking of the Titanic, this ideal of responsibility and discipline proved to be the most powerful temperament that could not be eroded.' ”
"It is this sense of responsibility that makes firefighter Valman. Cavill, feeling that he might have left a little early, went back to Boiler Room Four to see if there were any other boilermen trapped there; It was this sense of responsibility that led Signalman Ron to fire flares and shake Morse signal lights on deck all the time, no matter how hopeless it may seem; It was this sense of responsibility that made Hengming, the boilermaker who was assigned to the lifeboat as a rower, give this opportunity to others, stay on deck himself, and still unload the sail dinghy at the last moment; It was this sense of responsibility that kept the operators Phillips and Bred in the newspaper room until the last minute, and Captain Smith told them that they could abandon the ship, and they still did not leave, and continued to type on the keyboard, the seconds of the end of life, the telegram and the last hope; It was this sense of responsibility that kept Chief Engineer Bell and all the engineers working hard in the engine room, even knowing that they had no time to get on deck and lost any chance of escape; It is this sense of responsibility that makes the bandmaw Henry. Hartley and the other musicians played light jazz and solemn religious chants, 'God is with us,' until the waters carried their lives and songs to the bottom of the sea......"
"This qiē cannot be fully explained by just one sentence of 'bravery'. As the saying goes, 'Even a hero becomes a coward in a desperate situation.' But the 'Titanic' has turned countless ordinary people into heroes! The sense of responsibility lifts up the value of people, the nobility of people, and the beauty of people. ”
"This is the spirit of nobility! Each and every one of them is a nobleman in my mind! ”
"When the survivors of the 'Titanic' discussed who survived and who died, because there were far more women and children than men, people thought it was a victory for the myth of the maritime rule of 'women and children first'. But the company to which the Titanic belongs told the media: There is no so-called 'sea rule' that requires men to make such a big sacrifice, and what they do can only be said to be a kind of care for the weak by the strong, which is the same whether on land or at sea. This is their personal choice, not what any rules and regulations or rules of navigation can demand. They hold fast to the old but eternally young human values. ’
"At that time, the billionaire Asd asked the officer in charge of the lifeboat if he could accompany his pregnant wife, Madeleine, to the boat, and after the crew member said, 'Women and children go first,' he returned to the deck like a true gentleman and sat there quietly until the ship sank and the ship's collapsed chimney smashed him into the Atlantic. Asd was the only billionaire on the Titanic at the time and one of the richest people in the world, and his assets could build eleven Titanic ships. ”
"Captain Smith of the Titanic had a very good personal relationship with almost all the rich people on the ship, and many of them were also his good friends, including Asd. But Asd didn't go to Captain Smith to go through the 'back door' and be accommodating and let him get on the boat. If he goes to the captain, there is also a good reason, his wife is five months pregnant. But Asd didn't do this, or didn't think that he should do it at all, it was an era when there was no concept of 'back door', an era of paying attention to gentlemanly demeanor and being a real man. He is a true aristocrat! ”
"Another rich man on the Titanic who was second only to Astor in wealth was called Strauss, and he and his wife were also on this ship. The Strauss also brought a dozen attendants and waiters with them themselves, in case the waiters on the ship were not enough, or when it was inconvenient for them to serve. It is conceivable that they are rich and magnificent. After the Titanic hit the iceberg, Mrs. Strauss almost got on the No. 8 lifeboat, but just as her foot was about to step on the side, she suddenly changed her mind and came back to be with Mr. Strauss, saying: 'For so many years, we have lived together, and where you go, I will go!' She gave her place in the boat to a young maid, and threw her fur coat at her, saying: 'I don't need it anymore!' ’”
"When someone asks the 67-year-old Mr. Strauss, 'I promise that no one will object to an old gentleman like you getting into a dinghy......,' Strauss replied firmly, 'I will never get into a lifeboat before any other man.'" Then, holding the arm of his 63-year-old wife, Ida, an elderly couple hobbled to the rattan chairs on the deck and sat down, perched there peacefully like a pair of mandarin ducks, quietly waiting for the final moments. ”
"When he knew he had no chance of being rescued, the famous pipeline tycoon Benjamin . Guggenheim put on the most gorgeous evening gown, and he said: 'I'm going to die decently like a gentleman.' The note he left for his wife read: 'There will not be a single woman on the deck of this boat because I have taken the place of the lifeboat.' I won't die like a brute, I'll die like a real man. I'm a nobleman! ’”
At this point in the story, it came to an abrupt end, Lan Jue's eyes were already a little moist, but they were filled with a kind of frenzy that could infect everyone.
"I don't know if you can become a nobleman in the future, but today I am standing here and becoming a lecturer at the Huameng National Academy, this first class, I must tell you, what is a real nobleman!"
"The spiritual aristocracy is not necessarily rich, and the rich are not necessarily noble. And the aristocratic spirit can never be bought with money! If one day, you can puff up your chest and become such a nobleman, then, I, I am proud of you! ”
(Part of the story about the Titanic is quoted from Danny. Alan Butler, "Unsinkable")
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The third watch is done, and I finally finished writing a plot that I have always wanted to write, I hope you like it. The reason why I wrote this city is precisely because I have something I want to pass on to everyone. In many cases, aristocracy is seen as a derogatory term, especially in a country like ours that has been dominated by vernacular literature since liberation. But I want to show you what a real aristocracy is. Aristocracy is not money and power, but more importantly, a responsibility, that can be set off with life, brave to protect the weak, protect relatives, their nobility, and money and power have nothing to do with a dime, that is the noble brilliance of human nature.