Commonwealth: A Novel of Utopia, part 3, chapter 2
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After a week, a miniature Pacific Republic was growing in Westchester.
Rae had been there for every step โ had taken part in every step โ and she still couldn’t believe how quickly the transformation was happening. It was like the growth of a crystal: given a seed, new atoms would lock into place around it in the same orderly pattern, spreading and propagating through self-organization.