This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. THE FAMILY. The family is the basis or unit of society. "God hath set the earth in families;" families unite in tribes; tribes join for mutual protection, and form nations; but the family is the pivot on which human society revolves. It is the natural grouping of humanity, and the model of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. THE FAMILY. The family is the basis or unit of society. "God hath set the earth in families;" families unite in tribes; tribes join for mutual protection, and form nations; but the family is the pivot on which human society revolves. It is the natural grouping of humanity, and the model of all larger associations. Family relations are our first, dearest, and last relations. Family duties are our chief duties in lifej and in the family we find our greatest happiness. Other associations and duties are of a more temporary, exceptional, or artificial character. Birth, marriage, life, and death are in the family. It is easy to see, therefore, that our behaviour in the family relations is the most important of all to our happiness. The English people believe that they have family life in its highest perfection, and that they, of all peoples, know most of the comforts of home. But some English writers of our day have discovered that family life exists also among our nearest Continental neighbours in great purity and affection, and in larger groupings than in England--grandparents, children, and grandchildren living together in large mansions, or clusters of dwellings, in mutual love and help, and forming beautiful societies. In this way aged parents are not deserted and left to end their days in loneliness; brothers and sisters are not separated; there are nephews and nieces as well as children; cousins make a wider companionship for the young, and various families are interwoven in a network of relationship. In England, and still more in America, there is too much separation and isolation of families. The groups are too small. When the husband is engaged in his business, or taking his comfort at a club, his wife is pining in...
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