ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the application of the positive theory to the family. The positive spirit, mainly characterized by rational precision, originates in practical conceptions. The work of conception would be made distinctly subordinate to that of expression, the natural preponderance of which shows itself in so many ways and results from its relation to man's social spirit. The moment that life assumes a social character, though it be only the life of the family, the habit of cooperation, simultaneous or successive, begins gradually to transform into a social mode the originally selfish character of labor. In estimating the great influence upon morality of the transformation of labor, due to the accumulation of products, political theorists must in social statics look on man as if he already possessed the full sense of his real dignity.
