GROUP

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Definitions

1. a group is not just a number of people, it is a number of people with a shared ideal, ethic and rationale. It is an entity. Individual members of a group may come and go, and hundreds of years may pass, but the group may still be the "same" group. As it has grown older, its component parts have been replaced, like the cells in a body. The memory of a group is not equal to the memories of the individuals in the group. It may be greater or less than these, depending on whether or not there has been good communication and filing in the group. Any group which depends wholly upon the memories of individuals and has no common recorded memory has no real memory of its own and is insane as a group, though the individuals in it may be quite rational. (HYYTAE, p. 120)

2. a group is only a collection of different people, without policy to agree upon. For policies are the points of agreement which make the group into a true group and an irresistible force. (HCO PL 13 Mar 65 II)

3. a group is composed of individual group members. (HCO PL 30 Dec 70)

4. Group (Def. 3)

5. another type of organization is the group. Official groups of the HASI and official congregations of the various churches exist in very large numbers in the United States and Great Britain and elsewhere through the world. To charter a group one only needs to write the HASI. (PAB 90)