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As regards domestic buildings, there must always be a certain limitation to views of this

kind in the power,

as well as in the hearts of men. Still, I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their

houses are built to last for one generation only. There is a sanctity in a good man's house

which cannot be renewed in every tenement that rises on its ruins. And I believe that good men would generally

feel this, and that having spent their lives happily and honorably, they would be grieved at the

close of them, to think that the place of their earthly abode, which had seen and seemed almost to

sympathize in all their honor, their gladness or their suffering, that this, with all the record at bear of them,

and all of material things that they had loved and ruled over, and set the stamp of themselves

upon, was to be swept away as soon as there was room made for them in the grave, that no respect

was to be shown to it, no affection felt for it, no good to be drawn from it by their children,

that though there was a monument in the church, there was no warm monument in the hearth and house to them, that

all that they ever treasured was despised, and the places that had sheltered and comforted

them were dragged down to dust.

I say that a good man would fear this, and that far more a good son, a noble descendant,

would fear doing it to his father's house. I say that if men lived like men indeed, their houses would

be temples, temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us wholly

to be permitted to live. And there must be a strange dissillusion of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all

that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful

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