"...when Alexander the Great broadened the Greek horizon beyond its former preoccupation with single cities, we find Stoic philosophers fusing the 'natural' and 'social' orders into a single unit. Everything in the world (they argued) manifests in varied ways an 'order' which expresses the Reason that binds all things together. Social and natural regularities alike are aspects of the same overall cosmos + polis--i.e. cosmopolis. The practical idea that human affairs are influenced by, and proceed in step with heavenly affairs, changes into the philosophical idea, that the structure of Nature reinforces a rational Social Order." --Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis, 68.
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