This principle has worked universally, the only difference in its action among different races being the greater or less degree of the evolving motion.

With us the social system has been turning more and more rapidly with time.

In the Far East its force, instead of increasing, would seem to have decreased, enabling the nebula of its original condition to keep together as a single mass, so that to-day a whole nation, resembling a nebula indeed in homogeneity, is swayed by a single patriarchal principle.

Here, on the contrary, so rapid has the motion become that even brethren find themselves scattered to the four winds.
An Occidental father and an Oriental head of a family are no longer really correlative terms.

The latter more closely resembles a king in his duties, responsibilities, and functions generally.