“It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 9 “Red Sun Circle” (pp. 136-137)

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