"When the family shall no longer have a head, and the great foundation for the subjection of children in the mother’s example is gone; when the mother shall have found another sphere than her home for her energies; when she shall have exchanged the sweet charities of domestic love and sympathy for the fierce passions of the political campaign; when families shall be disrupted at the impulse of either party, and the children scattered as abandoned infants from their home, ”” it requires no wisdom to see that a race of sons will be reared nearer akin to devils than to men.
"In the hands of such a bastard progeny, without discipline, without homes, without a God, the last remains of social order will speedily perish, and society will be overwhelmed in savage anarchy.” (Written in 1871 by R.L. Dabney American Christian theologian)
"Was Dabney a Prophet" read at this link; https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/was-dabney-a-prophet/
On July 1, 1894 in a letter to Thomas Cary Johnson (his later biographer)Dabney wrote,
"I am the Cassandra of Yankeedom, predestined to prophesy truth and never to be believed by her country until too late.”
In some ways we are too late. Many of Dabney’s prophecies have already come to pass. However, instead of ignoring the man, we should consider the arguments of this intellectual giant. Time has vindicated Robert Lewis Dabney.