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The bigger an organization becomes, the more likely are dissensions and quarrels to arise within it, despite all its professions of special sanctity or proclamations of brotherly love. The essential things get gradually lost, the accidental are made more of and treasured up. The Spirit is squeezed out, the superfluities brought in.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 4 : Organized Groups > # 94