Sep 20, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
There are important analogies between a father in a family and a ruler in a nation. This is perhaps especially clear in the consequences of their failure. Aquinas writes that “royal dignity is rendered hateful to many people on account of the wickedness of tyrants.”...
Jul 19, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
Robert Louis Stevenson’s wonderful verses often capture more than meets the eye. When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me. To dig the sandy shore. A Child’s Garden of Verses They – whoever ‘they’ were – clearly did this child a good turn....
Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Institute of Family Studies, Wednesday Quotes
Sociologist Christopher Lasch once wrote, “Socialization makes the individual want to do what he has to do; the family is the agency to which society entrusts this complex and delicate task.” Complex and delicate indeed. But then again, it is no more complex than the...
Feb 23, 2022 | Wednesday Quotes
“I take this to Mommy.” A little boy in the woods The other day while cutting firewood I had occasion to reflect on one of the great wonders of the world: the human boy-child. My two and a half year old grandson is, how else to say this?, one hundred...
Oct 13, 2021 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“Happy hearts and happy faces, Happy play in grassy places— That was how, in ancient ages, Children grew to kings and sages.” Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses What sounds like a sweet childhood ditty in fact points to one of the most significant, and...
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