Capitolo 3
conclusions. Me the to postulate, as a fact not to be discussed, that our universe
it is an expression of an universal law that had the nineteenth century
open and you/he/she could formulate.
During the thirty past years I have given my best attention to this subject,
and now I am to consent to this proposal till now that my mind he/she minds
in the opposite direction. Every day that I live me I am less able to withstand the
I suspect that the universe, away from the being an expression of law
originating in an only primary cause, it is a chaos that leaves entrance to arrive
any equilibrium, and with which is eternally condemned and hopelessly man
contends. For human society, to deserve the name of the civilization, has to be
an incarnation of order, or it has to mind at least toward a social equilibrium.
I take, as an illustration of my meaning, the development of the national one
relationships of our run.
I suppose him/it for generally to be admitted, that possibly man first is and
probably his/her greatest advance toward orders--and, therefore, toward
civilization--it was the creation of the family as the social nucleus. As
It said Napoleon, when the lawyers were sketching his/her civil code, "Face the
family responsible to his/her head and the head to me, and I will hold order
in France." And still even if our dependence on the system of family has been
recognized in every age and in every earth, you/he/she has not been limitation on
personal liberty that has been resentful more, from men and women,
likewise, that has been this obligation that, when perfect, he/she forces a man and
a woman to live an united life until death is able them you/he/she departs, for the
propagation, care and defense of their children.
The result is that any civilization has, as he/she anchors, he/she ever succeeded, and anybody
promised in the immediate future to succeed, in to strengthen this chief physician
obligation, and we am conducted so to consider the cause, inherent in ours
complex nature that does him/it impossible for us to establish a