id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195352 National Catholic Welfare Conference. Christian marriage and the family. 1932 .txt text/plain 16924 663 58 As the family, according to the teaching of Leo XIII, is the unit of civil society, and as a nation is made up of distinct families, it follows that the strength and wel- fare of a nation depend largely on the ideals of family life. The divisive and separative force of selfish- ness must give way to the binding and attractive influ- ence of altruism if family life is to flourish. cache/_005195352.txt txt/_005195352.txt