Date of Award

5-1932

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

F. A. Ryan

Abstract

The discussion of any sort of home life is always interesting because the word "home" connotes so many things dear to the heart of almost everyone. A home deals with humane, both children and adults, and as such contains the lure of human interest. The home is the center of the real life of each individual; there are his sorrows and griefs, his joys and gay times. In the home, children are moulded into great men and women or just weakling. From time immemorial the sanctity of the home was strictly upheld by some sort of marriage laws. And finally, the history of any nation is determined by its family life. In reference to the relation between history and family life, Ferrero, an eminent student of Roman life, makes the following statement:

"The causes of how many apparently mysterious historical events would be more clearly and profoundly known, of how many periods would the spirit be better undets100 did we only possess the private records of the families that make up the ruling classes? Every deed we do in the intimacy of the home reacts on the whole of our environment. With our every act we assume a responsibility toward the nation and posterity, the sanction for which, near or far away, is in events. This justifies, at least in part, the ancient conception by which the state had the right to exercise vigilance over its citizens, their private acts, customs, pleasures, vices, caprices. This vigilance, the laws that regulated it, the moral and political teachings that brought pressure to bear in the exercise of these laws, tended above all to charge upon the individual man the social responsibility of his single acts; to remind him that in the things most personal aside from the individual pain or pleasure, there was an interest, a good or an evil, in common.

Comments

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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