Without family he believed there would be neither stability nor order. He believed that without the family, society would not even be able to function. He cared about the family because he believed that every institution evolved from that unity. Comte even states that “families become tribes and tribes become nations, so that the entire human race can be conceived as the gradual development of a single family.” (Augusto Conte, 221-276). Comte believed that every institution in a society derived from an institution, the