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Excerpt from By the Fireside Not only has the family undergone profound changes, it has suffered grave deterioration, encoun tered innumerable enemies, contracted Vices and taken on stains. It appears to us as a human in stitution, regulated by customs and laws, exposed to the errors and passions of men; and by virtue of its exterior conditions it belongs to the ephemeral: but by its root it plunges into the eternal. Love and the ties of blood - the centuries pass, these things endure. As ancient as the world, they are as young as each new morning, and we are men only in pro portion to the hold they have taken upon us. 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.