Make somebody to do something

Solution 1:

Here is one sentence from the book that uses "make [x] to", twice in one sentence:

For the latter differs from the evolutionary semantics of Millikan, Papineau, et al. in this respect: it does not make significance, in general, to be a function, whether biological or cultural, nor does it make signs, in general, to have a function (i.e., a purpose, whether biological or cultural.

Here, "make" does not mean to "force someone to do something" as in: "I made him wash the car."

to make something to be: to define it as or to do something for the purpose of.

"I did not make [defined or produced] the argument to be a shibboleth."

Make here means produce or cause to exist in the first sense given for the word in most dictionaries.

Pierce's Theory of Signs, see Page 309

Solution 2:

In the first example "makes the individual to be" is short for "makes the individual out to be". The phrasal verb makes ST out takes the to infinitive. It can be used to either mean figures out what ST is, or establishes ST to be.

1. make somebody/something out to manage to see someone or something or read or hear something
   synonym distinguish
   I could just make out a figure in the darkness.
   make out what, who, etc… I could hear voices but I couldn't make out what they were saying.
2. to say that something is true when it may not be
   synonym claim
   She's not as rich as people make out.
   make out that… He made out that he had been robbed.
   make out to be/do something She makes herself out to be smarter than she really is.

bold mine.https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/make-out

The bold shows the to infinitive use, albeit applied to the second definition instead of the first one that is applicable to your sentence. There is a difference in meaning with or without the out. With the out, there is the implication of doubt or uncertainty about the claim. Without the out, there isn't any issue of doubt, and it reads as establishes to be.

Making something to last a lifetime is different than making something last a lifetime.