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Third chapter «The family»

To the individual, the family is more important than the state. Humanity recognizes the individual as a human being, and the normal individual acknowledges the family, which is his cradle, his origin and which serves as his social umbrella. Unlike the state, the individual and the family are natural entities. The human race has neither relations nor anything else to do with the state, which is an artificial, political, economic and sometimes military system. The family is precisely like a plant: made up of twigs and leaves and blossoms. Cultivating the natural environment into farms and gardens and the like, is an artificial accomplishment that has nothing to do with the nature of the plant. The fact that certain political, economic or even military factors tie a number of families in one given state does not in any way link this system with humanity. Therefore, any measure, condition, or circumstance, which throws a family into disorder or leads to its dispersion and ruin is inhuman and goes against nature; it is oppressive and quite similar to an action, a circumstance or measure, which causes a plant to wither or perish, or which destroys its twigs, leaves and blossoms. Societies, in which family unity and entity are threatened due to certain conditions, are analogous to a field in which plants are threatened by erosion, fire, drought, heat or aridity. A blossoming garden or field is that whose plants grow naturally, blossom, pollinate and take root. The same holds true of the human society. A thriving society is one in which the family flourishes and the individual grows normally within its bosom, and is established as a member of the human community. But just as the leaf of a branch or the branch of a tree, if severed, loses its value and physical life, an individual severed from his family, i.e. an individual without a family, has no value or no social life. If the human community were ever to become a society without families, it would then become a community of tramps without roots, like artificial plants.

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