Family values  The essence of civilization is the orderly quest
for truth; the rational perception of reality and all of its
components, and the adaptation of our behavior to its laws.
Civilization's enemies lie among those individuals who, for
whatever motive, deny, distort, minimize, exaggerate or
repudiate the truth, and who falsify the process of reason.  Our
defensive option against the damage immortality can inflict on
society rests on our social institutions. Unfortunately,
respect, integrity, and responsibility are now uncommon
traditional family values.  We, however, need to orientate
ourselves by discovering and perfecting the order of past
events.  We should be engaged in a continuous effort of moral
and social orientation, reflected in our attempts to improve our
designs for civil government, for legal and ethical codes, and
our image of what a just society should be. A society under the
rule of law is a plausible and attainable objective.  There is,
likewise, a process of moral ordering, in whic