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The Family as Society’s True Unit

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International Tract and Missionary Society · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jul 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 27.

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You cannot make people moral or virtuous by Act of Parliament or State control, at least when the nation has outgrown patriarchal government. The family is the true unit of political as well as moral life, from which real and permanent improvement must be sought. Improve the State and you do not necessarily improve the individual. Improve the individual and you necessarily improve the State.—Sel