A man in the world is in vital response to the influences around him.

But a husband in the home is playing a part which was created for him long centuries before he was born.

He is falling into a convention, which, indeed, was moulded to fit many masculine human needs but has become rigidly traditionalised.

Thus the part no longer corresponds accurately to the player's nature nor to the circumstances under which it has to be played.
In the marriage system which has prevailed in our world for several thousand years, a certain hierarchy, or sacred order in authority, has throughout been recognised.

The family has been regarded as a small State of which the husband and father is head.