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“What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.”

Herbert Read · Society

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

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