CHAPTER III 



FAMILY AND SOCIETY 



THE lofty plane of life on which man 

 lives and moves is the result of his 

 higher intellectual, as well as his moral 

 and religious instincts, thoughts, purposes, and 

 powers. His higher intellectual and moral pow- 

 ers are evidently due to the fact that he is a 

 social being living in some sort of family life. 

 Our first question is : Are family and society arti- 

 ficial and conscious human inventions, as it were? 

 Or are they rooted deep in his very structure, to 

 a certain extent necessary results of his constitu- 

 tion, products of an evolution which was urged 

 or forced upon him by conditions outside of his 

 choice or knowledge? 



Two sets of forces or streams of tendency 

 have united to produce these two great human 

 institutions and to give them their present form. 

 One of these is at first purely physiological, the 

 other the result of an instinct or feeling. We 



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