Man passes through the stages of childhood,
youth maturity and old age. First being
taken care of by others, than taking care of others, and in old age again being
taken care of by others. First obeying
and respecting others and later being obeyed and respected in turn in
proportion as he grows older. The colour
is lent to this picture of life and family is lent by the presence of women.
A wise patriarch is careful in selecting women
of sound heritage as a gardener is careful to select the proper strain for
grafting a branch. It is pretty well suspected that a man’s life, particularly
his homes life, is made or unmade by wife he marries and the entire character
of the future family is determined by her.
The idea of life is to live so as not to be
a shame to ones ancestors and to have sons of whom one need not be ashamed.
“Having
sons, I am content with life,
Without
office, my body is light”.
The worst thing can happen to a man,
probably is to have unworthy sons who cannot “maintain the family glory” or
even the family fortune. One the other
hand, a far sighted widow is able to endure years of misery and ignominy and
even persecution; if she has a good boy of five.
The success of widows in giving their
children a prefect education of character and morals through woman’s generally
more realistic sense, has often led me think that fathers are totally unnecessary, so far as
upbringing of children is concerned. The
widow always laughs last.
Finally, the old shall be made to live in
peace and security, the young shall learn to love and be loyal, that inside the
chamber there may be no unmarried maids and outside the chamber, there may be
no unmarried males.
The philosophy of “fulfillment of
instincts”. All are human instincts must
be satisfied, because only thus we can have moral peace through a satisfying
life, and because only moral peace is true peace.
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