The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting childr...en and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They felt the rush of the sap in the spring, they knew the wave which cannot halt, but every year throws forward the seed to beget...ting, and, falling back, leaves the unborn on the earth. They knew the intercourse between heaven and earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishme...nt; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand. This is of great use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »