Excerpt from The Family
The intention of this book is to bring together the materials for an estimate of the meaning and importance of the family as an institution in human society. In order to understand its structure and influence as we now know it, and to judge whether it is an essential or merely temporary form of organisation, it seemed to be necessary to understand also something of its development and function in the past. Hence the first part consists of an attempt to explain some of the leading theories and facts of the history of the past, and to show their bearing upon the modern Family; while the second part is devoted to an analysis and description of this modern Family, and a consideration of its influence in social life. It is quite remarkable how seldom the present student or reformer of society shows any recognition of the importance of the Family as compared with other and more artificial institutions. Indeed, the very word institution means in popular usage an asylum or a hospital or a reformatory; something with plenty of bricks and mortar and a large staff of officials.
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