. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XX. rOLITENESS AT HOME. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon these, in a greatmeasure, the laws depend. The law teaches us but here and there, nowand then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt ordebase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensibleoperation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole formand colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, theysupply laws, or they totally destroy them.—Bujh:. BOUT twelve thousand police in
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XX. rOLITENESS AT HOME. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon these, in a greatmeasure, the laws depend. The law teaches us but here and there, nowand then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt ordebase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensibleoperation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole formand colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, theysupply laws, or they totally destroy them.—Bujh:. BOUT twelve thousand police in London areable to take care of about four million is it done ? Chiefly by moral force, and,above all, by civility. Sir Edmund Henderson,the Chief Commissioner of the force, said on arecent occasion that it was by strict attention to duty, bysobriety, and, above all, by civility, that the police endeavouredto do their duty. * I lay great stress upon civility, said theChief Commissioner, for I think it is the great characteristicof the metropolitan police force. POLITEXESS A T HOME. 185 If civility and politeness have such an influence upon thehard, rough world of London how much greater will be theeffect of good manners or beautiful behaviour, not only inrendering comparatively safe the many difficult crossings in thepath of newly-married people, but also in adorning even thesmallest details of family life! True courtesy exhibits itself ina disposition to contribute to the happiness of others, and inrefraining from all that may annoy them. And
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