Which town?

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And so, a town to gather and assemble them?

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Or else, a town, a dedicated collectivity, to shelter and protect them, to surround them with a favourable atmosphere aspiring to the unity of all and to the harmony of a progressive social existence in accord with Nature and mindful of wholeness and balance? For there would certainly be a sort of factual hierarchy, no more according to a vertical ladder of value or status, but according to each one’s aptitude to develop the capacities necessary for the transition – endurance, for instance, to undergo the ordeals of the transformation -, and the general organization would have to provide for needs and expressions of different orders, while serving shared objectives.

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