Especially it remodelled that of which it first seemed the enemy, the family relation.

It created a new basis for society, founded upon a new sense of the importance to society of family morals.

Because this idea, this morality, came through superstition, its value is not thereby in the least diminished.
Superstitions often represent correct guesses at eternal truth.

To-day we know that all social progress, all national strength, all national vigour, intellectual as well as physical, depend essentially upon the family, upon the morality of the household, upon the relation of parents to children.
It was this fact which the Greeks and Romans forgot, and lost themselves by forgetting.

It was this fact which the superstitious tyranny of the Middle Ages had to teach the West over again, and after such a fashion that it is not likely ever to become forgotten.