fancy to that baby. He looks very much like me."

Off goes the father, and that savage mother, in a primitive way,
is a wife. Hereafter she is to be cared for. Bears will be
killed for her, even while she has children to keep her busy and
unattractive. Society takes a new turn and the red-haired baby
has done it.

To childhood, helpless and beautiful, we owe marriage and all
that growth of morality which is gradually making us really
civilized.

The basis of all real growth is altruism; and altruism, the
inclination to think more of others than of yourself, came into
the world through the cradle.

We owe such civilization as we have acquired to children.

"A softened pressure of an uncouth hand, a human gleam in an
almost animal eye, an endearment in an inarticulate voice--feeble
things enough. Yet in these faint awakenings lay the hope of the
human race." ----

The influence of childhood has transformed mere animal attraction
into unselfish affection. It has substituted family life for
savage life. The interests of childhood demand that marriage and
its responsibilities be held sacred.

Duty to future generations demands that divorce be made difficult
and considered a misfortune.