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Home Values Are Down, and Not Just at the Bank
The prospect of possessing one’s own house,” wrote educator George B. Emerson in 1871, “and that a pleasant one, with a garden and trees, and room for the children to play, in safety, must be a strong motive with any man to regularity, good conduct, and economy.”
The way our 19th-century forebears saw it, owning a home could shape and improve your moral character. Reformers such as Emerson believed that the home was “the most sacred place for man and for woman, and especially for children” because it developed the Victorian virtues of “truthfulness, industry, order, frugality, reverence, purity, and self-control.”
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