"historical virtue" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to virtues or moral qualities that have been valued and upheld throughout history. You can use it when discussing historical figures and their virtues, or when discussing the impact of historical events on the development of virtues in a society. Example: "The ancient Greeks believed in the importance of wisdom, courage, and justice - three of their most prized historical virtues."
Richard J. Evans of Cambridge University, the author of "Lying About Hitler," is an eminent historian of Germany with large books to his name, as well as the discursive "In Defense of History," an attack on postmodernism and deconstructionism in the name of the traditional historical virtue of objectivity.
Today, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is celebrated across the United States and its historical virtue extolled in textbooks.
Broadway's historical virtue, and obstacle, is that a theater can only hold a small handful of people at any one time, and only if they're in New York.
Students will also have to pull the name of a city neighborhood out of a hat and extol its historical virtues in front of the class.
It was the sound of music critiquing its own historical situation by virtue of its sheer ambivalence.
This is in contrast to the expectation for convergence, which is typically thought to disrupt historical signatures by virtue of the diversity of the pool of potential, host environments.
The first book was devoted to an analysis of two necessary conditions: virtue (virtus), which requires piety and goodness; and prudence (prudentia) which is dependent on use and historical memory.
Until 1928, the Democrats could, by virtue of historical accident, count on the votes of both whites in the rural South and immigrants in the urban North.
In truth, the revision thing is big in Washington too.One of the most popular kinds of historical revisionism concerns the virtue of the nation's citizens.
"In the Blood," which opens today at the 57th Street Playhouse, purports to be a documentary celebrating family ties, manly virtue and historical tradition, not to mention wildlife conservation.
You know, like Honest Abe, one of Cain's historical models of quiet virtue.
