“ All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. ”
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895). copy citation
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
|---|---|
| Source | Jude the Obscure |
| Topic | care children |
| Date | 1895 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/153/153-h/153-h.htm |
Context
“"I must say that, if I were better off, I should not stop for a moment to think whose he might be. I would take him and bring him up. The beggarly question of parentage—what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom."”
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