ABSTRACT
Dire and official injustices have been approved by men even of high standing, and applied in the more liberal republics, because they think of society as a union of families rather than a union of men. When the spirit is fostered by the republic of men, its patron is general principles; the republic comprehends the facts and condenses them into categories of important principles that are good for the greater majority of its citizens. In a republic of families, the sons remain under the power of the head of the family while he is still alive, and are forced to wait until his death in order to be allowed to have an existence dependent solely on laws. As a society grows larger the significance of each member becomes less and the republican sentiment is diminished if the citizen is not protected by the laws.
