They are adopted, more or less, by the authority imposing the moral code; and when the two sources coincide, the stream is all the stronger.
(2) Where moral training is omitted or greatly neglected, there is an absence of security for virtuous conduct.
In no civilized community is moral discipline entirely wanting.
Although children may be neglected by their parents, they come at last under the discipline of the law and the public.

They cannot be exempted from the associations of punishment with wrong.

But when these associations have not been early and sedulously formed, in the family, in the school, and in the workshop, the moral sentiment is left in a feeble condition.

There still remain the force of the law and of public opinion, the examples of public punishment, and the reprobation of guilt.

Every member of the community must witness daily the degraded condition of the viciously disposed, and the prosperity following on respect for the law.