CHAPTER II.--HOME POWER.



"So build we up the being that we are,
Thus deeply drinking in the soul of things,
We shall be wise perforce." WORDSWORTH.

"The millstreams that turn the clappers of the world
arise in solitary places."--HELPS.

"In the course of a conversation with Madame Campan, Napoleon
Buonaparte remarked: 'The old systems of instruction seem to be
worth nothing; what is yet wanting in order that the people should
be properly educated?' 'MOTHERS,' replied Madame Campan. The
reply struck the Emperor. 'Yes!' said he 'here is a system of
education in one word. Be it your care, then, to train up mothers
who shall know how to educate their children.'"--AIME MARTIN.

"Lord! with what care hast Thou begirt us round!
Parents first season us. Then schoolmasters
Deliver us to laws. They send us bound
To rules of reason."--GEORGE HERBERT.


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 imbibes those principles of
conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.