Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… them inferior to us all in all that can soften the heart, or dignify the understanding. Domestic affections depend on association. We love an object if, as often as we see or recollect it, an agreeable sensation arises in our minds. But … detached individuals are still connected by an invisible copula – and I need only mention the needs, affection and associations of domestic Man, with all the causes that render families permanent. […] Now under favorable circumstances, …
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