noble lines the wavering and
the weak.

QUESTIONS ON THE BROKEN FAMILY

1. Is the admitted increase in divorce wholly a testimony to
moral degeneracy? If so, what can be done about it? If not,
what else does it indicate?

2. What are the main points to work for in order to reduce the
number of divorces, and to remove the social evils of which
divorces are only the symptom?

3. Should the social psychology be directed principally toward
preventing people from getting divorce or from remarrying after
divorce, or toward making marriage so generally successful that
fewer people want to separate?

4. What is specially needed in education both of youth and the
adult in the United States in the interest of family stability
and family success?

5. Make a list of causes that in your opinion justify legal
separation or divorce and find out whether or not these causes
are named in the statutes of your State. If they are not, what
should be done about it?

6. What is done for and with the children of legally separated and
divorced persons in your State?

CHAPTER XIII

THE FAMILY AND THE WORKERS

"It is all work, and forgotten work, this peopled, clothed,
articulate-speaking, high-towered, wide-acred world. For the
thistle a blade of grass, later a drop of nourishing milk, later a
nobler man. Man perfects himself as well as the world by
working."--CARLYLE.

"Every man's task is his life preserver."--EMERSON.

"What was his name? I do not know his name.
No form of bronze and no memorial stones
Show me the place where lie his mouldering bones.
Only a cheerful city stands,
Builded by his hardened hands;
Only ten thousand homes,
Where every day
The cheerful play
Of love and hope and courage comes;
These are his monuments, and these alone,--
There is no form of bronze and no memorial stone."
--EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

"Let us now praise the artificer and the workmaster
Who is wakeful to finish his work.
These put their trust in their hands
And each becometh wise in his own work.
Though they sit not in the seat of the judge,
Nor understand the covenant of judgment;
Though they declare not instruction nor utter dark sayings
Yet without these shall not a city be inhabited
Nor shall men sojourn ther