Which town?

Therefore, PC. now made all the required arrangements and provisions to integrate them in the structure. Similar efforts would later be dedicated to the fabrication of the crystal globe and of the four symbols composing the four vertical faces supporting its weight.

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Not all the lands within the perimeter of the future town had been acquired, despite Her insistent warnings. In immediate proximity to the sphere, a portion of the outer gardens could not yet be realized – so long as its owner would not resolve to sell it, so long as the community would remain “illegal”, so long as the funds would be lacking = how to know? On the other hand, a number of lands had been purchased, a little haphazardly, at the time when the location of the town was thought to be further West and South : some of these lands had been adopted as farmlands, for raising cattle or as forested areas, yet others remained unutilized – and sometimes forgotten, in the confusion of responsibilities and administrative management of assets. A few hundred residents could not physically look after it all, there was too much to do. The principle which had been laid down by R. early on, to build nothing on the territory of the city which was not clearly determined by its plan and priorities, turned out to be, in the prevailing circumstances, impractical = there was need to distribute and spread the presence and activity of the community and ensure through the facts of life what still hung in legal suspense, or in the ideal. Indeed, this was one of our advantages and strengths: the great majority of the affiliates or partisans of the Society were loath to abandon the security

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