Excerpt from The Family, a Religious Institution, or Heaven Its Model It cannot justly excite our astonishment, then, to find the value of home depreciated, its influences weakened, and its restraints less regarded. Sons often seem to look Upon the parental abode as the place of mere boarding and lodging, and the Opportunities of parental inspection, and the culture of those social feelings which chasten and sweeten life, become circumscribed to the few fleet ing moments of a hurried repast. And thus becomes formed a taste for every thing abroad, and for but little at home. It is for this taste that Satan is ready and diligent to provide. And hence are set on foot shows, conviviali ties, plays, and entertainments, in countless multitude, to crowd on the distracted attention, and to steal even the hours of needful quiet and repose - to do their part in turning men loose from home, and breaking those hal lowed social bonds which are the strong guards of virtue, and among the firmest barriers to vice. All these things come of those new and rapid developments of society, which have occurred in recent years, and the progress of which is to be more and more astonishing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.