bined with a due recognition of the moral and emotional parts of our nature; and in which
justice as united with these; truly and really influences the intercourse of the social units。 The basis
of the patriarchal condition is the family relation; which develops the primary form of conscious
morality; succeeded by that of the State as its second phase。 The patriarchal condition is one of
transition; in which the family has already advanced to the position of a race or people; where the
union; therefore; has already ceased to be simply a bond of love and confidence; and has bee
one of plighted service。 We must first examine the ethical principle of the Family。 The Family may
be reckoned as virtually a single person; since its members have either mutually surrendered their
individual personality; (and consequently their legal position towards each other; with the rest of
their particular interests and desires) as in the case of the Parents; or have not yet attained such an
independent personality; … (the Children; … who are primarily in that merely natural condition
already mentioned。) They live; therefore; in a unity of feeling; love; confidence; and faith in each
other。 And in a relation of mutual love; the one individual has the consciousness of himself in the
consciousness of the other; he lives out of self; and in this mutual self…renunciation each regains the
life that had been virtually transferred to the other; gains; in fact; that others existence and his own;
as involved with that other。 The farther interests connected with the necessities and external
concerns of life; as well as the development that has to take place within their circle; i。e。 of the
children constitute a mon object for the members of the Family。 The Spirit of the Family … the
Penates … form one substantial being; as much as the Spirit of a People in the State; and morality in
both cases consists in a feeling; a consciousness; and a will; not limited to individual personality
and interest; but embracing the mon interests of the members generally。 But this unity is in the
case of the Family essentially one of feeling; not advancing beyond the limits of the merely
natural。 The piety of the Family relation should be respected in the highest degree by the State;
by its means the State obtains as its members individuals who are already moral (for as mere
persons they are not) and who in uniting to form a state bring with them that sound basis of a
political edifice … the capacity of feeling one with a Whole。 But the expansion of the Family to a
patriarchal unity carries us beyond the ties of blood…relationship … the simply natural elements of
that basis; and outside of these limits the members of the munity must enter upon the position
of independent personality。 A review of the patriarchal condition; in extenso; would lead us to
give special attention to the Theocratical Constitution。 The head of the patriarchal clan is also its
priest。 If the Family in its general relations; is not yet separated from civic society and the state; the
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