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233. The rights of husband over wife and father over children are (a) like that of property in being rights against all the world, (b) unlike it in being rights over persons, and therefore reciprocal

234. The latter characteristic would be expressed by German writers by saying that both the 'subject' and the 'object' of these rights are persons

235. Three questions about them: (1) What makes man capable of family life? (2) How does it come to have rights? (3) What ought the form of those rights to be?

236. (1) The family implies the same effort after permanent self-satisfaction as property, together with a permanent interest in a particular woman and her children

237. The capacity for this interest is essential to anything which can be rightly called family life, whatever lower forms of life may historically have preceded it

238. (2) The rights of family life arise from the mutual recognition of this interest by members of the same clan (in which the historical family always appears as an element)