Herbert Read
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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.