And how many a mother has shut her eyes to the faults of her children, and so made criminals of them and brought them down to the lowest depths — and behold, they fill the prisons, despised, cut off from human society, like beasts of prey.
There is no doubt that the mother is the foundation of upbringing and the foundation of society. It is for her to watch over her sons, who are nothing less than the men of tomorrow and the hope of life.
It is for her to carry out the responsibility that God has laid upon her shoulders, singling her out to be, alone, the first worker in the ordering of society.
If the mother's morals are corrupt, the morals of the family are corrupted; and by the corruption of the family, society is corrupted. And society is nothing but families bound together by virtue of law and blood.
Refine the girl, kindle in her inmost being the fire of zeal and duty, and cultivate her character, for it is she who carries on her arms the men of tomorrow.
And when the child reaches the age that fits him for entering school, his teachers must complete the family's upbringing by nourishing the mind, and the love of tolerance and of self-denial for the sake of others, so that the sentiment of solidarity and the spirit of mutual support prevail among the pupils, the mind is enlightened, and its possessor becomes a man uniting in himself the qualities of heroism and gallantry.
So when the family rises to a complete and sound upbringing, and the girl understands the supreme responsibility laid upon her shoulders in the bond of marriage, she will succeed in raising her children an ideal raising, and will help to build a flourishing society of which the generations will sing and for which immortality will be decreed.
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