Interesting Quote - Are we barbarians yet?

"The mainsprings of human nature must always retain their power --- the majority of men must be brave, and of women chaste, parents must love their children more than themselves, and one man must be able to trust the word of another, or else we should relapse into the worst kind of barbarism."

Mary Cadwaldader Jones, "An Old-Fashioned Virtue," The Delineator, August 1896, p. 230.