“Even more than the private corporation, it is a composite of huge numbers of individuals who bring to this sprawling nation their own distinctive pasts.”
“As a simple example of a certificate, the factors of a composite number provide a certificate of compositeness.”
“More even than number, extension, shows the characteristics of compositeness, and of posteriority.”
“This is not because they are negative in substance but because our minds first grasp composite things and only come to know simple things by denying compositeness of them.”