- Family ties remain. The relation of husband and wife, of parents and children, and the duties of their several positions in the home have not changed. The family remains the social unit as it has been in all ages. Sociology, the science of social and political organization, is a permanent science. It does not change with the shifting temporal conditions of the people. Those things which made for the general welfare of ages ago are for the public weal now, and those things that endangered the state then are to be avoided now.
- The moral law remains unchanged and unchangeable, with all the brilliant present there is no amendment to the ten commandments. The ethical nature remains and the voice of conscience, approving the same right and condemning the same wrong, is identical with the voice of conscience in the time of Moses.
- The laws of nature have not changed. The relation between a cause and its sequence remains. Like causes produce like effects.
No living thing has changed its nature. A lion now is of the same nature that it was in the time of Samson. So with every savage beast that roams the jungle. Even the domesticated animals, with all the effort and skill of intelligent man, have only been smoothed or speeded a little. The horse, cow, sheep, or dog have held their old forms and dispositions.
Seed time and harvest come and go and we are dependent for the same shower and sunshine that gave Adam his first harvest.
We know some things they did not know and we have bettered our tools, but the natural world has shown no signs of change.
The relation of things to each other have not changed. Plants must have soil to grow in, animals must have vegetation to feed