Chapter II
Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation
CHIVALRY
Introduction 325
1. Honour 332
(a) Notion of same. Contrast between Greek and modern art in this respect 332
(b) Vulnerability of same 335
(c) Reparation demanded. Honour a mode of self-subsistency which is self-reflective 336
2. Love 337
(a) Fundamental conception of. Illustrations from poetry 337
(b) Collisions of the same 341
[(α) That between honour and love 341
(β) That between the supreme spiritual forces of state, family, etc., and love 342
(γ) Opposition between love and external conditions in the prose of life and the prejudice of others] 342
(c) Limitation of contingency inherent in the conception itself 343
3. Fidelity 345
(a) Loyalty of service 346
(b) The nature of its co-ordination with a social order either in the world of Chivalry or the modern 347
(c) Nature of its collisions. Illustrations. The "Cid," etc. 348