When civil society finds itself in unhindered activity, it is, within itself, engaged in progressive population growth and industry. — Through the generalization of the interconnection of human beings through their needs, and of the ways of preparing and procuring the means for these, the accumulation of wealth increases — for it is from this twofold universality that the greatest profit is drawn — on the one side; just as, on the other side, [there increases] the isolation and limitedness of particular labour, and thereby the dependence and want of the class tied to this labour, with which is connected an incapacity for the feeling and enjoyment of the further freedoms, and, in particular, of the spiritual advantages, of civil society.