Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
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The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.Georg Simmel
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible.
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All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other.
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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
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For obvious reasons, the immoral hides itself, even when its content encounters no social penalty, as, for example, many sexual faults.
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