The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
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The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
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