emales of our race should be different, and that their
duties and obligations, while they differ materially, are equally
important and equally honorable, and that each sex is equally
well qualified by natural endowments for the discharge of the
important duties which pertain to each, and that each sex is
equally competent to discharge those duties.

We find an abundance of evidence, both _in the works of nature_
and in the Divine revelation, to establish the fact that the
family properly regulated is the foundation and pillar of
society, and is the most important of any other human
institution. In the Divine economy it is provided that the man
shall be the head of the family, and shall take upon himself the
solemn obligation of providing for and protecting the family.

Man, by reason of his physical strength, and his other endowments
and faculties, is qualified for the discharge of those duties
that require strength and ability to combat with the sterner
realities and difficulties of life. It is not only his duty to
provide for and protect the family, but as a member of the
community it is also his duty to discharge the laborious and
responsible obligations which the family owe to the State, and
which obligations must be discharged by the head of the family,
until the male members have grown up to manhood and are able to
aid in the discharge of those obligations, when it becomes their
duty each in turn to take charge of and rear a family, for which
he is responsible.

Among other duties which the head of the family owes to the State
is military duty in time of war, which he, _when able-bodied_, is
able to discharge and which the female members of the family are
unable to discharge.[35]

He is also under obligation to discharge jury duty,[36] and by
himself _or his representatives_ to perform his part of the labor
necessary to construct and keep in order roads, bridges, streets
and all grades of public highways.[37] And in this progressive
age upon the male sex is devolved the duty of constructing and
operating our railroads, and the engines and other rolling stock
with which they are operated; of building, equipping and
launching shipping and other water craft of every character
necessary for the transportation of passengers and freig