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gregarious instinct of Her town’ inhabitants and spared them a more considerable effort of awareness – everyone would find there enough practical advantages to adapt and accommodate to its reality. The financial service, the office and meeting rooms of the most strategic working groups, the administration of all documents, deeds, admissions, records , titles and registers – these buildings would soon constitute the indispensable organs of the collective life and their singular architecture, approved by R. but not his own, become a characteristic landmark of the urban physiognomy. It was then further decided by the faithful, some of whom had access to large funding, that several high residential buildings would also be erected there, which would in principle be reserved for those who gave themselves full-time to the sacred work. Thus were endorsed fairly significant modifications and adaptations of the original plan – for the good cause.

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The economic orientations that have set in during those years attempt to conciliate movements of different natures while adjusting to various external constraints = indeed, the physical, practical, legal and political conditions that surround this adventure and partly determine the terms of its progress are such that no community could survive their onslaught by its own means. The amounts earned or generated by the commercial units of Her township could in no way ever suffice to merely maintain and protect the lands and the roads. Then how to provide for all the needs of all the participants, even if they were all engaged in a daily work useful to the community, to the maintenance of all lands and buildings and roads, to the functioning of all

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