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pertaining to the particular individual as such … a limitation of caprice and
self…will is regarded as a fettering of Freedom。 We should on the contrary look upon such
limitation as the indispensable proviso of emancipation。 Society and the State are the very
conditions in which Freedom is realised。
§ 44
We must notice a second view; contravening the principle of the development of moral relations
into a legal form。 The patriarchal condition is regarded … either in reference to the entire race of
man; or to some branches of it … as exclusively that condition of things; in which the legal element is
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 natur