He gave expression to the national feeling, and like expressions, generally his, served to stamp the idea all the more indelibly upon the national consciousness.
In this manner the family from a natural relation grew into a highly unnatural social anachronism.

The loose ties of a roving life became fetters of a fixed conventionality.

Bonds originally of mutual advantage hardened into restrictions by which the young were hopelessly tethered to the old.

Midway in its course the race undertook to turn round and face backwards, as it journeyed on.

Its subsequent advance could be nothing but slow.
The head of a family is so now in something of a corporeal sense.