The family, like every other element of human life, is susceptible of progress, and from epoch to epoch its tendencies and aspirations are enlarged, although its duties can never be abrogated and its obligations can never be cancelled.

It is impossible to bring about the higher development by any self-assertion or breaking away of the individual will.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

The family in its entirety must be carried out into the larger life.

Its various members together must recognize and acknowledge the validity of the social obligation.