"Then up spoke brave Horatius
the Captain of the Gate
'To every man upon this Earth
death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
than facing fearful odds
for the ashes of his Fathers
and the Temples of his Gods'."
From "Lays of Ancient Rome" by Lord Thomas B. MacCauley
Not much of this sentiment in the West today.
I think that Steyn has lost some faith in the youth of Western Civilisation.
However,currently we are reliving 1933, when the Oxford Union debated "This House would under no circumstances fight for its King and country".Yet as Kipling notes there comes a tipping point as those same Oxford students discovered in 1939.