is the family--Adam and Eve. But though Adam and Eve are in many
respects equal, 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