, moreover, in the freedom of mind with
which they engage the leisure of women with interminable conversations.

Who is the mortified man in the present day, in this time of hard work,
eager efforts, and fiery opposition? It is the layman, the worldly
man. This man of the world, full of cares, works all day and all
night, either for his family, or for the State. Being often engaged in
details of business or studies, too thorny to interest his wife and
children, he cannot communicate to them what fills his own mind. Even
at the hour of rest he speaks little, being always pursuing his idea.
Success in business and invention in science are only obtained at a
high price--the price that Newton mentions, _by ever thinking of it_.
Solitary among his kindred, he runs the risk, making their glory, or
their fortune, to become a stranger to them.

The Churchman, on the contrary, who, in these days, to judge of him by
what he publishes, studies little, and invents nothing, and who no
longer wages against himself that war of mortifications imposed by the
middle ages, coolly and quietly pursue two very different occupations
at the same time. By his assiduity and fawning words, he gains over
the family of the man of business, at the very moment he hurls down
upon him from the pulpit the thunders of his eloquence.

CHAPTER III.

THE MOTHER.--ALONE, FOR A LONG TIME, SHE CAN BRING UP HER
CHILD.--INTELLECTUAL NOURISHMENT.--GESTATION, INCUBATION, AND
EDUCATION.--THE CHILD GUARANTEES THE MOTHER.--THE MOTHER GUARANTEES THE
CHILD.--SHE PROTECTS ITS NATURAL ORIGINALITY.--PUBLIC EDUCATION MUST
LIMIT THIS ORIGINALITY.--EVEN THE FATHER LIMITS IT.--THE MOTHER DEFENDS
IT.--MATERNAL WEAKNESS.--THE MOTHER WOULD MAKE HER SON A HERO.--THE
HEROIC DISINTERESTEDNESS OF MATERNAL LOVE.

We have already said, if you wish your family to resist the foreign
influence which dissolves it, _keep the child at home_ as much as
possible. Let the _mother_ bring it up under the father's direction,
till the moment when it is claimed for public instruction by its great
mother, its native land. If the mother bring up the child, the
consequence will be, that she will always remain by her husband's side,
needing his advice, and anxious to receive from him fresh supplies of
knowledge. The real idea of a family will here be realised, which is
for the child to be initiated by the mother, and the mother by the
husband.

The mother's instinct is just and t