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...where does parental
authority come in? The State provides old folks with refuges and
pensions: how about the former obligations of children? Child and
parent alike now thank the community for what they once received from
each other. And the geographical elements that went to the making of a
home are also dispersed. Rich and poor roam like gipsies from one
country to another, from one flat into the next; the patriarchal board
is replaced by clubs and grill-rooms and fried-fish shops.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. 
Note, too, that the family has outgrown its
ecclesiastical sanction; the oil of supernaturalism which once greased
the wheels has run dry; the machinery is creaking. Industrial
conditions have killed the old home. REQUIESCAT! Honour thy father and
mother. Industrialism has killed that commandment. Thou shalt not
steal. Consider this injunction, Heard, and ask yourself whether
industrialism does not split its sides with laughing at it. If we are
to galvanize that old collection of laws...
Douglas, Norman
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George Norman Douglas (December 8, 1868 - February 7, 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. He was born in Thringen in Austria into a Scottish family (his mother was half-German). (His surname was registered at birth as Douglass). His father was manager of a cotton mill there, but died when Douglas was young. He was brought up mainly at Tilquhillie, Deeside, his paternal home. He was educated at Uppingham School England, and then at the Gymnasium school in Karlsruhe. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version
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