Abstraction Hierarchy Representation

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    Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
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    In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
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