CONTENTS. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN FAMILY OR DOMESTIC CIRCLE; INCLUDING ITS VARIOUS CONNECTIONS AND PECULIAR SANCTIONS; THE MORAL POWER OF WHICH IT IS SUSCEPTIBLE; WITH THE DANGER AND VANITY OF INTERFERENCE. SECT. I.-Preliminary Observations, III.-Connections subsisting between the different Bran- ches of the Domestic Constitution, IV. The Penalty or Punishment of Disobedience or Neg- THE UNTRANSFERABLE OBLIGATIONS AND PECULIAR ADVANTAGES SECT. I.-Obedience and Success contrasted with Negligence II. The Causes of Failure traced to their Source, 205 224 . 237 chased Tuition; the Obligations to which are not 291 314 PART FIRST. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN FAMILY, OR DOMESTIC CIRCLE; INCLUDING ITS VARIOUS CONNECTIONS AND PECULIAR SANCTIONS; THE MORAL POWER OF WHICH IT IS SUSCEPTIBLE; WITH THE DANGER AND VANITY OF INTERFERENCE. Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein and how they have degenerated; but yet ask counsel of both times: of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. BACON. Persons are elements of Families; Families are the elements of which both Churches, and Kingdoms, or Commonwealths, are composed and made up: and as the one sort of these is purely civil, the other purely sacred, that which is elementary unto both must be both. HOWE. |