The emperor was well aware of this, which is why he was at pains to point out that the Manchus, though foreigners by blood, "saved" China by restoring virtue, stability and, indeed, civilization.
Having written several non-fiction books about restoring virtue to the boardroom, Monks now has made that noble cause the theme of his first novel, Reel and Rout (Brook Street Press, $23.95).
The more conservative Mr. Munger is skeptical that "the Keynesian stuff" of direct government intervention will keep working indefinitely, given that people will eventually want to restore "fiscal virtue".
And, by offering to lead Americans on an independent and bipartisan national crusade to restore public virtue in American life, he not only defined the terms of his presidential bid against Barack Obama but audaciously and dramatically abandoned the Republican credo of the George Bush years.
The purpose of reform therefore will be to restore justice, virtue, and compassion to Muslim conditions.
Join Ballet to the People in Barcelona and find out whether Don Quixote -- with the faithful, down-to-earth Sancho Panza at his side -- succeeds in his quest to restore the virtues of knight-errantry to a civilization that has lost its sense of chivalry.
"Confession: a Roman Catholic App" is not a session with a virtual priest who restores your virtue with a penance of three Hail Mary's and three extra gigabytes of memory.
The Jacobins, for whom Marat was a spokesman, declared openly that "terror must be the order of the day" to restore Roman republican virtue to the modern world.
Yet it could be argued that his master plan to spring the cultural trap and release the darker instincts — aggression, sex, power — would have not only lent these instincts honest shapes but restored the virtues that had been so long debased by the pretenses of bourgeois life.
