2 Metaphors for groupings

Credit and co-operative groupings for the purchase of seed, fertilisers and implements, are the twin pillars of rural industry.

But this spontaneous grouping into "kinds" is the first essay of the human mind at classification, or the calling by a common name of those things that are alike, and the arranging them in such a manner as best to suggest the sum of their likenesses and unlikenesses to other things.

2 Metaphors for  groupings