"The difference between the individual as a person and what is accidental to him, is not a conceptual difference but a historical fact. The distinction has a different significance at different times-e.g. the estate as something accidental to the individual in the eighteenth century, the family more or less too. It is not a distinction that we have to make for each age, but one which age makes itself from among the different elements which it finds in existence, and indeed not according to any theory, but compelled by material collisions in life."
I, also got most of the reading, but was a little confused by this selection. Does he mean that because it is a fact, it is something unavoidable? and how is the individual compared with the accidental and what is mean t by each?
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