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"All right! No education is too wide or too high for a mother. She has
to educate heroes, saints, and good workers. There would have been no
Gracchi, if there had been no Cornelia; no Samuel, if Hannah had not
trained him. The profession of motherhood is woman's great natural
office; no others can be named with it. The family must be put before
everything else as a principle."
"John," she said coaxingly, "you are so far behind the times. The idea
of 'home' is growing antiquated, and the institution of the family is
passing out of date, my dear."
"You are mistaken, Jane. Mother and home are the soul of the world; they
will never pass. I read the other day that Horace Walpole thanked God
that he came into the world when there were still such terms as
'afternoon' and 'evening.' I hope I may say I came when the ideas of
'home' and children' were still the moving principles of human society;
and I swear that I will do nothing to sink them below the verge. God
forbid!"
"John, I am not concerned about principles.
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