The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . and wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearthstane, his thrifty wifies smile,The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a his weary, caiking cares beguile, An makes him quite forget his labor an his toil. —Burns. [HE family is the oldest and most valuableinstitution on earth. In the Garden ofEden it had its origin, and its founder was%||py no less a being than God Himself, the•^ Author of life, and the Creator of theworld. In the be
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . and wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearthstane, his thrifty wifies smile,The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a his weary, caiking cares beguile, An makes him quite forget his labor an his toil. —Burns. [HE family is the oldest and most valuableinstitution on earth. In the Garden ofEden it had its origin, and its founder was%||py no less a being than God Himself, the•^ Author of life, and the Creator of theworld. In the beginning God made the first pairmale and female, put them together in a commonhome, and commanded them to be fruitful and multi-ply. And so the world was gradually filled by theincrease of children and the multiplication of familiesand homes. There is not a single institution ofearth, whether sacred or secular, but has had its risein the family. The Church is simply a large Christianfamily. The State is nothing more than an aggrega-tion of families. Family government is the originalmodel of State authority, discipline, and punishment. 524 THE FAMILY. The father of a family was the first priest andpreacher. There can be no permanent state of human happi-ness outside of the family relation. The Nomads, orwandering tribes of the desert, although shut outfrom much of civilized enjoyment by their want of asteady, fixed habitation, still have separate families,and find about all their comfort and peace inside oftheir temporary home-circles. The disposition tocongregate in groups or families is manifested evenamong the lower order of creatures, although, by theabsence of all moral feeling and civil regulations,there is no exclusiveness of affection recognizedamong them. Whoever or whatever seeks to breakdown or weaken the force of the family relation,strikes a death-blow at the existence of personalvirtue, and opens the flood-gates of evil to the world. Every one must have remarked
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