A nation is a family, a race is a family, but the brotherhood of family bonds has diminished in these days. There remain hardly any families now such as there used to be in ancient times. The family bonds were often so strong that feuds developed between rival families. For years and years families caused bloodshed, taking revenge perhaps for some wrong that somebody's grandfather had done, or for what somebody's great-grandfather had said to somebody's great-great-grandfather. We have improved since then, and we have become such a large family that whereas family feuds used to cause three deaths in fifty years, they now cause the death of millions and millions of people; this is because we have advanced in the organization of families, without first knowing how we should form a family.