text: He firmly accepted the role of a hereditary aristocracy and the value of primogeniture , and while he endorsed the idea that a woman could head a state , he held that she could not be effective as the head of a family .
simplified: While he approved the idea that a woman could run a government , he thought that she could not be effective as the head of a family . He firmly accepted the role of a hereditary aristocracy and the value of primogeniture .