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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIRST PART. THE DOMESTIC HABITS OF THE JEWS. Op all the places on earth, the one which has the greatest influence on a man is his home. There the foundation of his character is laid. However valuable educational institutions may be, their influence is but small compared with that of the family. It is here the child receives his first ideas?those ideas create feelings ?those feelings produce habits; and those habits ultimately form the character. It is true, that an individual may, after attaining riper years, by education and self- exertion greatly modify his character; but to completely eradicate the first impressions is impossible. Whatever may be done by the government or the people, or by both united, to educate the rising generation, nothing will answer the end of family training. The principal object of educational establishments is to develope and train the intellectual faculties; but the family influence bears more directly upon the moral faculties: and we all know that a man's life is more under the govern- ment of the heart than of the understanding. It is true that both may co-operate; but it is as true that they may act contrary. The history of the world proves it beyond all dispute, whether we look upon our own age or ages past. Take Sweden, for example, the most universally educated people of any in Europe, yet the most drunken. Or look at France?after all the expenditure lavished upon her education, how she stands out in bold relief, a most unenviable social and moral spectacle to the nations. Now the cause of all this is that family virtues are not cultivated. The most effectual way to improve a country is to train its families?and the only efficient textbook is the Word of God. It is from that source, directly or indirectly, that liberty, and peace, and ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217730006 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217730000 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 232 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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