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Extracts from Amiel’s Journal: Woman’s Ideal the Community’s Fate

By Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

DECEMBER 11TH, 1872.—The ideal which the wife and mother makes for herself, the manner in which she understands duty and life, contain the fate of the community. Her faith becomes the star of the conjugal ship, and her love the animating principle that fashions the future of all belonging to her. Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.

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