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the grave matter of marriage, and the beginning 

 of a home. 



Study of the law of heredity will by no means 

 solve all social problems ; but it does shed light on 

 the pathway of man, and make more distinct the 

 course of right human conduct in some most im- 

 portant matters. It is not claimed, however, that 

 because the law itself has as yet been studied by 

 parents all too little, that therefore the facts of 

 heredity have been altogether ignored by them. 

 Not at all. " The love of God is broader than the 

 measure of man's mind," and He has so ordered 

 things that parental instinct — that brooding, con- 

 stant affection for offspring which finds its culmi- 

 nation in humanity — often blindly, but surely, 

 chooses the best methods of training, and by its 

 fervour and constancy accomplishes what clearer 

 sight, and even perfect science, with less ardent 

 affection could not accomplish. 



The home has many enemies, some open, more 

 of them covert. The tendency which results from 

 the possession of wealth to have no settled place 

 of abode, to migrate from one hotel to another, 

 making impossible the sweet domesticity of sim- 

 pler life ; the gregariousness of huge apartment 

 houses instead of single dwellings ; the factory 



