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Appendix 1: ICARUS or The Future of Science
except as causes facilitating the conscious effects.
We may define the intensity of organization to
which a given individual is subject as the
proportion of his acts which is determined by the
orders or advice of some group, expressed through
democratic decisions or executive officers. The
intensity of organization in a community may then
be defined as the average intensity for its several
members. The intensity of organization is
increased not only when a man belongs to more
organizations, but also when the organizations to
which he already belongs play a larger part in his
life, as, for example, the State plays a larger part
in war than in peace.
Another matter which needs to be treated
quantitatively is the degree of democracy,
oligarchy, or monarchy in an organization. No
organization belongs completely to any one of the
three types. There must be executive officers, who
will often in practice be able to decide policy, even
if in theory they cannot do so. And even if their
power depends upon persuasion, they may so
completely control the relevant publicity that they
can always rely upon a majority. The directors of
a railway company, for instance, are to all intents
and purposes uncontrolled by the shareholders, who
have no adequate means of organizing an
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