A city hammers and polishes its denizens into a defined model: it worships standardisation; but the country encourages differentiation, it loves new types.
"Adventures In Contentment"
David Grayson AKA: Ray Stannard Baker
They are subject to criticism and objection, for we are groping in the dark towards what Mr Leonard Inkster calls the standardisation of artistic terms; if I prefer to his scientific way the more inspired suggestion of 'esperanto,' that is a common language of the arts, it is without fear of being called metaphysical.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George
Formerly in England the standardisation of plan and product was almost unknown.
"The War After the War"
Isaac Frederick Marcosson