... which the child in blood possesses of becoming one day the head of a family himself. The flocks and herds of the children are the flocks and herds of the father, and the possessions of the parent, ... the family, connected by common subjection to the highest male ascendant. The aggregation of families forms the gens, or house. The aggregation of houses makes the tribe. The aggregation of ... gives the readers of the journal the sort of words and the sort of thoughts they are used to so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age...