"Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice."
"Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom."
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Source: Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.281, Atlantic Monthly Press
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