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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER II .-- HOME POWER.
"So build we up the being that we are, Thus deeply drinking in the soul of things, We shall be wise perforce." WORDSWORTH.
"The millstreams that turn the clappers of the world arise in solitary places."-- HELPS.
"In the course of a conversation with Madame Campan, Napoleon Buonaparte remarked: 'The old systems of instruction seem to be worth nothing; what is yet wanting in order that the people should be properly educated ?' 'MOTHERS,' replied Madame Campan.

The reply struck the Emperor.

'Yes!' said he 'here is a system of education in one word.

Be it your care, then, to train up mothers who shall know how to educate their children.'"-- AIME MARTIN.
"Lord! with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us.

Then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws.


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