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our home or emanating influences of the hearthstone

by charles edward sargent

Author: charles edward sargent

Parenting & Families

Added by: K. K. Davis

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‘Our Home’, published in 1899, and written and edited by six men with either ecclesiastical or publishing backgrounds, is a book about homes, families, and what makes them successful. The book covers the aspects and needs of the home beginning with the origin of the family, through childhood, young adulthood, growing up and leaving the home, to eventual death and continuation into further generations. The book is very thorough in discussing all things necessary and helpful in each stage of life to the creating of a successful home and family.

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...grows, no matter what care it receives, must blossom into a rose. No care or neg- lect, at least in any definite period of time, can transform it into a noxious weed. But on every mother's bosom there rests a bud of promise, and whether or not that promise shall be fulfilled depends upon her. Whether that bud shall blossom into a pure and fragrant rose or into the flower of the deadly nightshade, is at the option of the guardian. We would not, however, be understood as teaching the doctrine long since abandoned by the investigators of human science, that all are born equal as regards future possibilities. If men had known the subtle laws that gov- ern the development of the human intellect, they perhaps 53 Buds of Promise. might have traced the lightning's course through the infant brain of Franklin, and have discerned in the nascent mind of Newton the unlighted lamp whose far-searching beams have since guided the human intellect through the track- less void of the night. And yet, had...