Excerpt from Patriarchy; Or the Family: Its Constitution and Probation
In "Man Primeval," the constitution and probation of individual man were traced. The Family is the unfolding of the individual - the development of social man. In the following pages an attempt is made to exhibit the family in its constitution and probation.
The First Part is devoted to the Laws or Method of the domestic constitution. And although the Patriarchal character of the antediluvian community, as a form of government and a dispensation, is never lost sight of, yet, as the constitution of the family itself is as fixed as that of the individual, all that is here advanced on the subjects of marriage, of domestic government, and of education, is of permanent and perpetual application.
The Second Part indicates the stages and changes through which the Patriarchal community may have passed in the course of its probationary history. Had the Biblical narrative of these changes been as full as it is of the stages through which the Theocracy subsequently passed, we should have been able to affirm and exemplify where now we can do little more than suggest.
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