Yet to realize this civic responsibility of the
home would be, in the greater niunber of instances,
to remedy it. In those other instances where there
are no civic ideals, where the domestic conscience



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is dead, there rests upon the state, upon society,
for its own sake, the responsibility to train those
children so that, at any rate, they will not per-
petuate homes of this type. We may do very
much by the stimulation and direction of parents.
Men need but to be reminded of their duty to
make it a part of their business to train their
children in social duty.
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