22 Mar. 1805

Evidence

Ch. Procedure Natural

''.2. [...?] the model

''.2. Model of [...?] procedure, the domestic

The architecture of Nations gives the first model to the architecture of man. Trunks became /produced/ columns, branches, arches /arcades/; foliage /leaves/ furnished the ornaments for the [...?].

A political state is a family encreased and magnified; the family is a state in miniature.

Families existed before states. Government in families existed before government in states. Government is not less necessary to the existence of families than of states. In the one as in the other, judicature is a indispensable branch of government; it executes laws, if there are laws /so far as laws exist/; if not it supplies though in a state most constantly the want of them. So far as they /laws/ are wanting it supplies, though in a way morally inadequate the want of them.

In large societies there will always be disputes /disputes among the numbers happen but too frequently/; how should it be otherwise; few indeed are the families, how small soever there are altogether smallest have never been altogether free from them. But only opposition of interests, but even the different lights in which the human object will sometimes present itself in to different understanding, are every where sufficient to give birth to them /those results/. In families there will every now and then be transgressions /acts of delinquency/ /offence/; transgressions of these rules of action /conduct/, which with more or less reason, in a manner more or less explicit, the governing /head/ member has laid down for the observance of the rest. Such transgressions are called offences /misdeeds, acts of misbehaviour/. In the will /command/ /declared will/ of the [...?] more or less reasonably every act that runs counter to it /them/ receives that name. Pain, inflicted /produced/ properly by the superior, father, the head of the family whether for the purpose of preventing the repetition of the offence, on the part of the delinquent on the part of others under the temptation to become delinquents, or thereby to give vent to the resentment produced in the mind /raised in the tract/ of the superior by the contemplation of the offence, receives alike the same punishment.

All this, on the small scale of the family, exists in families; all this,m in the larger scale of a state, exists in states.

+ Happy [...?], if the model thus[?] set [...?] never been departed from without cause.