Even existence becomes a communal affair.
From the family mansion, or set of mansions, in which all its members dwell, to the family mausoleum, to which they will all eventually be borne, a man makes his life journey in strict company with his kin.
A man's life is thus but an undivisible fraction of the family life.

How essentially so will appear from the following slight sketch of it.
To begin at the beginning, his birth is a very important event--for the household, at which no one fails to rejoice except the new-comer.

He cries.

The general joy, however, depends somewhat upon his sex.

If the baby chances to be a boy, everybody is immensely pleased; if a girl, there is considerably less effusion shown.