The medieval ideal brought together two things which have no natural tendency to gravitate towards one another. It brought them together for that very reason. It taught humility and forbearance to the great warrior because everyone knew by experience how much he usually needed that lesson. It demanded valour of the urbane and modest man because everyone knew that he was as likely as not to be a milksop.
What, then, is the ideal that can bring both types of incomplete men together?
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C.S. Lewis addresses a similar dilemma in The Necessity of Chivalry:
What, then, is the ideal that can bring both types of incomplete men together?
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