u mean be dom

ons useful to a family, suppos

ed from the Latin w

are thos

e, conjugal love, fraternal love, and the acco

t is e

every thing that concerns the existence of the family or house; and as subsistence holds t

economy

mself and his family everything that is really convenient and useful; without mentioning his securing thereby resources against accident

d prodigality, th

nd wretchedness; and his very friends, fearing to be obliged to restore to him what he has spent wit

is pater

o make their children contract the habit of ev

al tenderness a

ves, enjoyments and helps that give a sensible satisfaction at every instant, and which assure to them, when advan

al love a co

r will, the instruments of their power, the trophies of their vanity, the pastime of their idleness. It is not so much the welfare of their children that they propose to themselves, as

y that conjugal

r children; they maintain the respect and fidelity of domestics; they prevent all disorder and dissipation; and from the whole of their good conduct, they live in ease and consideration; while married persons who do not love one another, fill their house with quarrels and troubles, create dissension between their childre

an offence in t

as they can, of its revenues or income, to expend them with the object of their affections; hence arise quarrels, scandal, lawsuits, the neglect of their children and servants, and at last the plundering and

is fil

the practice of those actions usefu

aw of nature pres

e principa

care of parents inspires, from the mos

nts a return and indemnity for the cares, and

eir own children examples of revolt and ingratitude, which authoriz

by filial love a passi

ual rights and duties of parents and children; rights and duties, witho

raternal lo

existence; while brothers disunited, abandoned each to his own personal strength, fall into all the inconveniences attendant on an insulated state and individual weakness. This is what a certain Scythian king ingeniously expressed when, on his death-bed, calling his children to him, he ordered them to break

procal duties of mas

ations of society; for the rule and measure of those respective actions is the equilibrium or equality between the serv

with certitude, to the physical object of the amelioration and preservation of man, a