07-07-2025
‘Invisible Grace': Civility and Kindness Are the Wellspring of Joy
While thumbing at random through 'Town & Country Social Graces,' a 2002 collection of lively essays by different authors on 'propriety without the stuffiness,' I came to one of the book's final entries, 'Invisible Grace' by Owen Edwards. The author links civility with kindness, from which there springs a certain grace and beauty of the human spirit.
Manuals like 'Social Graces' have long attracted American readers. As a youth, George Washington copied out and then put into practice '
