Never heard of this book. Interesting.
Reminds me...although this book is different in it's socialogical concepts...of Frank Herbert's sequestering of each of the sciences of Mathematics, Genetics, Physics, Cosmology and Space Travel and Eugenics into Guilds and Religions each with their own membership and in fact societies of people born and trained to be of a specific use and participating in a Universal Society in their own set CASTE system.
The book he wrote was called...DUNE.
Thank You for the nice associatative catch as far as this book.
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