§. 64. But what reason can hence advance this care of the parents due to their
offspring into an absolute, arbitrary dominion of the father, whose power
reaches no farther than by such a discipline as he finds most effectual to give
such strength and health to their bodies, such vigour and rectitude to their
minds, as may best fit his children to be most useful to themselves and others,
and, if it be necessary to his condition, to make them work when they are able
for their own subsistence; but in this power the mother, too, has her share
with the father.
