Verbal convention ?
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What is held up for devotion is not devotion to the family, but personal affection between the members of it: and the smaller the family, the more easily can this personal affection be sentimentalized. But when I speak of the family, I have in mind a bond which embraces a longer period of time than this; a piety toward the dead and a solicitude for the unborn. Unless this reverence for past and future is cultivated in the home, it can never be more than a verbal convention in the community.
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teacherJapan it can never be more than a verbal convention in the community. ~ it can never be more than empty words that people who live there typically say to one another. CJ
- teacherJapan it can never be more than a verbal convention in the community.
- ~ it can never be more than empty words that people who live there typically say to one another.
- CJ
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teacherJapanit can never be more than a verbal convention in the community.
~ it can never be more than empty words that people who live there typically say to one another.
CJ
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