At first, the family is the substantial whole to which the provision for this particular side of the individual belongs — both with regard to the means and skills needed to be able to acquire something out of the universal resource, and with regard to his subsistence and support in the event of incapacity. But civil society tears the individual out of this bond, estranges its members from one another, and recognizes them as self-subsistent persons; it further substitutes, in place of the external, inorganic nature and the paternal soil in which the individual had his subsistence, its own [resource], and subjects the very subsistence of the whole family itself to dependence on it, to contingency. Thus the individual has become a son of civil society, which has claims upon him just as much as he has rights against it.