children's guardians, the societies for the prevention of cruelty to children, orphans' asylums, state public schools, with their investigating and placing-out agents, empowered under supervision of the courts to take children away from parents and to place them in new homes. A large part of the unlimited coercion of the _patria potestas_ is here extracted from the family and annexed to the peculiar coercive institution where it is guided by notions of children's rights, and all families are thereby toned up to a stronger emphasis on persuasion as the justification of their continuance."[784] Here we catch a glimpse of the direction of future evolution in the family. At the same time it appears that the disintegration of paternal and marital coercive power is not a serious menace to the family. It has cleared the way for a higher and nobler spiritual domestic life. The real danger is that the family and the home will surrender an undue share of their duty and privilege to participate in the culture and training of the young. This function for the good of society may be vastly developed, though mainly on new lines bearing directly on the nature of marriage and the family. Of this function some further mention will presently be made. [783] PEABODY, "The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Family," in his _Jesus Christ and the Social Question_, 129 ff.; DIKE, "Problems of the Family," _Century_, XXXIX, 392, 393; _idem_, _Some Aspects of the Divorce Question_, 177 ff.; _idem_, _Perils of the Family_; MULFORD, _The Nation_, 276-83; BUSHNELL, "The Organic Unity of the Family," in his _Christian Nurture_, 90-122; HENDERSON, _Social Elements_, 71 ff.; ALLEN, "Divorces in New England," _North Am. Rev._, CXXX, 559 ff.; POTTER, "The Message of Christ to the Family," in his _Message of Christ to Manhood_; SALTER, _The Future of the Family_; MATHEWS, "The Family," _Am. Journal of Sociology_, I, 457-72; PEARSON, "The Decline of the Family," in his _National Life and Character_, 227 ff.; and the reply of MUIRHEAD, "Is the Family Declining?" _Int. Jour, of Ethics_, Oct., 1896, 33 ff.; ROSS, _Social Control_, 405, 433. The ablest appreciation of the value of individualism is that of MILL, _On Liberty_ (2d ed.), 100 ff. [784] COMMONS, "The Family," in his "Sociological View of Sovereignty," in _Am. Jour. of Sociology_, V, 683 ff., 688, 689. On the future of the family compare SPENCER, _Principles of Sociology_, I, 737 ff., 788; LETOURNEAU, _L'évolution du mariage_, 444 ff.; PEARSON, "The Decline of the Family," in his _National Life and Character_, 255, 256; MUIRHEAD, "Is the Family Declining?" _Int. Jour. of Ethics_, Oct., 1896, 53-55; TILLIER, _Le mariage_, 283 ff., 316.