Literary notes about Organized (AI summary)
The term "organized" in literature is employed to evoke a sense of deliberate structure and purposeful integration, whether in describing societal formations, institutional capacities, or individual states of being. In some texts, it underscores the deficiency of adaptive community cohesion [1] while in others it is commended as an ideal state—that to be highly organized is, in effect, the aim of human endeavor [2]. Authors extend its meaning to cover everything from the systematic creation of postal systems [3] and military assemblies [4] to the intricate arrangement of emotions or thoughts within an individual [5, 6]. Moreover, "organized" is used to trace the transformation of scattered efforts into concerted movements, be they in secret societies [7] or formal committees [8], highlighting its significance in both achieving collective action and imposing order on human affairs [9, 10, 11].
- Communities of this type are not organized to resist or adapt themselves as communities to changes in the environment.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - He organized a postal system for the colonies, which was the basis of the present United States Post Office.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin - There never was a corps better organized than was the quartermaster's corps with the Army of the Potomac in 1864.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - And for this cause, doubtless, are we so framed in mind, and even so organized in brain and nerve, that all confusion is painful.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Maternal love, for example, includes the emotions of fear, anger, joy, or sorrow, all [Pg 478] organized about the child.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - This secret association was organized in Cavite about 1892.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows - The committee organized with Mr. Weir as chairman, Mr. Wright as treasurer, and Mr. Stoffregen as secretary.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - One may be more or less certain of organized forces; one can never be certain of men.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams - It is organized on the basis of relation of means to ends—practically organized.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - At first sight, this definition may seem opposed to the current conception that science is organized or systematized knowledge.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
