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This book is an excellent resource for all. When I was first reading it I thought that it was a great parental guide. Then as I read, I thought it was the perfect, how to be a better spouse. Then it became a guide to become a better person.

It is full of gems that, even though written 120 years ago, most still apply to our daily life. The role of home in a family, the importance of being together as a family in the evenings, the roll of Sunday in the human psyche, etc.

As a reminder, this book was written during the last fourth turning and is a guide to living during a time of crisis. To understand the turnings of man, read the book, The Fourth Turning: http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-William-Strauss/dp/0767900464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270918970&sr=1-1 This is also an essential book to understanding the time in which we live.

I feel that this book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how one should structure life during a fourth turning.

This is an OLD book, and the delightful thing about many of the older books is the purity of content and purpose the author imparts. Some of the opinions are definitely out of date, but there are so many constant and profound maxims that it is worth plugging through the parts that tend to be a little more dry.