It is in the order of nature that domestic life should be preparatory to social, and that the mind and character should be formed in the home. There are the individuals who afterwards form society are dealt with in detail, and fashioned one by one. From the family, their entire life, and advanced from boyhood to citizenship. Thus the home may be regarded as the most influential school of civilization. For, after all, civilization, mainly resolves itself into a question of individual training; and according as the respective members of society are well or ill trained in youth, so will the community which they constitute be more or less benefited and elevated.

Only the right kind of home can furnish the right start in the world. From, a good seed and good soil grows a good tree, and even good seed cannot thrive well in poor soil. The well-known author, J. G. Holland, said “Any feeling that takes a man away from his home, is a traitor to his household.” Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he embodies those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.