Whitman does not stand aloof, superior, a priest or a critic: he abandons himself to all the strong human currents; he enters into and affiliates with every phase of life; he bestows himself royally upon whoever and whatever will receive him.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
The novice can hardly expect to learn unless he affiliates himself with such groups and attends their meetings.
"A Living from the Land"
William B. Duryee
To the intelligence of the savage, who is led, owing to his erroneous conception of things, to think of something inside the body which leaves it during sleep, wanders about, and then returns on awakening, and who because of this affiliates sleep to death, the case may be different.
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen