Family is the crystal of society

Any social rule that seeks to destroy family is faulty and, moreover, not applicable.

Society is soluble; family is not.

Family is made of natural laws; society is soluble for its false, artificial, transient, expedient, contingent, accidental laws that untangle in its constitution.

It shall often be useful, necessary, good to dissolve society when it is faulty or too old or inapropriate.

It shall never be useful, nor necessary nor good to dissolve family.

When you decompose society, what you get as last residue, is not the individual but the family.

Family is the crystal of society.

Victor Hugo, CHOSES VUES (1830-1848) Folio Classique

(Poorly translated from the French version)

Victor got it right hasn’t he?

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