Quote of the Week: The Nesting Doll of Human Conglomeration


“Any collocation of persons, no matter how numerous, how scant, how even their homogeneity, how firmly they profess common doctrine, will presently reveal themselves to consist of smaller groups espousing variant versions of the common creed; and these sub-groups will manifest sub-sub-groups, and so to the final limit of the single individual, and even in this single person conflicting tendencies will express themselves.”

        Attributed to the imaginary author Adam Ostwald of a hypothetical tractate “Human Society”