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  • He must lend himself to the development of aggregatory ideas that favour the civilising process, and he must do his best to promote the disintegration of aggregations and the effacement of aggregatory ideas, that keep men narrow and unreasonably prejudiced one against another.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • The second sort of aggregatory ideas, running very often across the boundaries of national ideas and in conflict with them, are religious ideas.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Now one perceives in all these aggregatory ideas and rearrangements of the sympathies one of the chief vices of human thought, due to its obsession by classificatory suggestions.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Disregarding classes, cliques, sets, castes, and the like minor aggregations, concerned for the most part with details and minor aspects of life, one finds among the civilised peoples of the world certain broad types of aggregatory idea.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • When we inquire, as well as the unformed condition of terrestrial sociology permits, into the aggregatory ideas that seem to satisfy men, we find a remarkable complex, a disorderly complex, in the minds of nearly all our civilised contemporaries.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • The Anti-idea, it would seem, is inseparable from the aggregatory idea; it is a necessity of the human mind.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Disregarding classes, cliques, sets, castes, and the like minor aggregations, concerned for the most part with details and minor aspects of life, one finds among the civilised peoples of the world certain broad types of aggregatory idea.

    A Modern Utopia 1906

  • The second sort of aggregatory ideas, running very often across the boundaries of national ideas and in conflict with them, are religious ideas.

    A Modern Utopia 1906

  • Now one perceives in all these aggregatory ideas and rearrangements of the sympathies one of the chief vices of human thought, due to its obsession by classificatory suggestions.

    A Modern Utopia 1906

  • Normal Social Life of western Europe in the middle ages, but, unlike Mr. Belloc, he believed that, given private ownership of land and the ordinary materials of life, there must necessarily be an aggregatory process, usury, expropriation, the development of an exploiting wealthy class.

    An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

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