money-making, marriage is but a pecuniary speculation, a mere gold

[Kincaide B. <ca...@cl...>]

Sickness when separated from it. But home-sympathy is also active. As
such it is "the active power that one person has naturally of entering
into the feelings of another, and being himself affected as that other
is." Each member of home has the power in his feelings of making the
feelings of all the other members his own, though he may not have the
causes of the feelings of the one with whom he sympathizes. Thus one
friend may feel the grief of another, actually and really, though he may
not suffer the loss of that friend. He can make the emotion which that
loss caused, his own. We may weep with the mother who pours her floods
of anguish upon the grave of her child, though we may not have sustained
the same loss. The husband weeps with his wife, though he may not be
able to feel the pangs which penetrate her heart. The child can enter
into the feelings of the parent, and be affected to tears or to joy by
them. And thus the home-sympathy demands that all the emotions of home,
whether joyful or painful, must affect all,--must vibrate from heart to
heart. It involves the power of home-transference, by which, each member
conveys to his own affections, all within home. It is thus the law of
adaptation and assimilation, for the home-affections. In obedience to
this law the hearts and