l, and have
equally important though different parts assigned them, one or the
other must be head and governor, or they cannot form the society called
family. They would be simply two individuals of different sexes, and
the family would fail for the want of unity.

Children cannot be reared, trained, or educated without some degree of
family government, of some authority to direct, control, restrain, or
prescribe. Hence the authority of the husband and father is recognized
by the common consent of mankind. Still more apparent is the necessity
of government the moment the family develops and grows into the tribe,
and the tribe into the nation. Hence no nation exists without
government; and we never find a savage tribe, however low or degraded,
that does not assert somewhere in the father, in the elders, or in the
tribe itself, the rude outlines or the faint reminiscences of some sort
of government, with authority to demand obedience and to punish the
refractory. Hence, as man is nowhere found out of society, so nowhere
is society found without government.

Government is necessary: but let it be remarked by the way, that its
necessity does not grow exclusively or chiefly out of the fact that the
human race by sin has fallen from its primitive integrity, or original
righteousness. The fall asserted by Christian theology, though often
misinterpreted, and its effects underrated or exaggerated, is a fact
too sadly confirmed by individual experience and universal history; but
it is not the cause why government is necessary, though it may be an
additional reason for demanding it. Government would have been
necessary if man had not sinned, and it is needed for the good as well
as for the bad. The law was promulgated in the Garden, while man
retained his innocence and remained in the integrity of his nature. It
exists in heaven as well as on earth, and in heaven in its perfection.
Its office is not purely repressive, to restrain violence, to redress
wrongs, and to punish the transgressor. It has something more to do
than to restrict our natural liberty, curb our passions, and maintain
justice between man and man. Its office is positive as well as
negative. It is needed to render effective the solidarity of the
individuals of a nation, and to render the nation an organism, not a
mere organization--to combine men in one living body, and to strengthen
all with the strength of each, and each with the strength of all--to