There is a real relation between this religion in private and this
revolution in public life. Stories none the less heroic for being
hackneyed remind us that the [Roman] Republic was founded on a tyrannicide
that avenged an insult to a wife; that the Tribunes of the people were
re-established after another which avenged an insult to a daughter.
The truth is that only men to whom the family is sacred will ever
have a standard or a status by which to criticise the state.
They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city;
the gods of the hearth.
-The Everlasting Man (1925)
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