The Emancipation of Massachusetts: (Brooks Adams Classics Collection)

by Brooks Adams

Book Overview

I assume it to be generally admitted, that possibly man's first and probably his greatest advance toward order-and, therefore, toward civilization-was the creation of the family as the social nucleus. As Napoleon said, when the lawyers were drafting his Civil Code, "Make the family responsible to its head, and the head to me, and I will keep order in France." And yet although our dependence on the family system has been recognized in every age and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508617155
• ISBN13: 9781508617150
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"