§. 77. GOD, having made man such a creature that, in His own judgment, it was
not good for him to be alone, put him under strong obligations of necessity,
convenience, and inclination, to drive him into society, as well as fitted him
with understanding and language to continue and enjoy it. The first society was
between man and wife, which gave beginning to that between parents and
children, to which, in time, that between master and servant came to be added.
And though all these might, and commonly did, meet together, and make up but
one family, wherein the master or mistress of it had some sort of rule proper
to a family, each of these, or all together, came short of "political
society," as we shall see if we consider the different ends, ties, and
bounds of each of these.