It would seem that man, when he finds himself in the solitude of the ocean, feels the deepest how great is his Dependancy on others for happiness.
"The Red Rover"
James Fenimore Cooper
Granting that his relations and labors may be acceptable, he falls upon the inevitable necessity of devoting his time and labor, during the vigor and strength of his days, for a meager compensation, and then pass into old age, and its attendant infirmities, as a Dependancy, if not a pauper.
"Thirty Years in the Itinerancy"
Wesson Gage Miller