cofraternity

But if they had the chance, Enoch told himself, if they ever got a break, if they only could be told what was out in space, then they'd get a grip upon themselves and they would measure up and then, in the course of time, would be admitted into the great cofraternity of the people of the stars.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

There was a common purpose, the forging of a great cofraternity of all intelligences.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

As a planet which had not been recognized by the galactic cofraternity, it was off-limit territory.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

And all that time the corrosion occasioned by that failure had eaten away at the bonds of the galactic cofraternity.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

But that scientist was wrong, for the Thuban race had so developed and there were other liquid worlds which were members of the galactic cofraternity.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

To him there was no longer any strangeness in the idea of a galactic cofraternity, of a transportation network that spread among the stars-a sense of wonder at times, but the strangeness had largely worn off.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

If Earth fights another war, our people will be barred, if not forever, at least for many centuries, from the cofraternity of space. "

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963