Family and Society 



thinker who said: "You can never build a 

 strong and permanent institution or movement 

 on privileges, but only on duties. Not what 

 men receive, but what they give, makes them 

 strong and truly rich." Thus modern govern- 

 ment and society slowly evolved. 



Human social evolution has hardly more than 

 begun. The great advantage of family life is 

 that each member contributes what another 

 lacks, and thus all are benefited by the partner- 

 ship. Society must realize and utilize to the 

 full all the possibilities of the individual and the 

 family. They must enjoy as far as possible 

 equal and full opportunity to completely develop 

 their best powers and capacities, and thus to con- 

 tribute as much as possible to the common wel- 

 fare. 



Every individual and family can enjoy full 

 freedom of opportunity only in so far as this 

 does not interfere with the equal rights of 

 neighbors. The family has succeeded in re- 

 placing mutual competition by mutual helpful- 

 ness. Society Is a means of accomplishing the 

 same result between families and classes. Here 

 the problem becomes more difficult. The family 

 is more powerful and harder to control. It far 



