Any large group of people organized together for enough time forms a body - the body of tradition and regulation. A large body of text is also known as a corpu

Any large group of people organized together for enough time forms a body - the body of tradition and regulation. A large body of text is also known as a corpus. Both the large groups and the large texts are dead in the sense that they do not change of their own power. They are static and closed to new information. Both text and groups must be re-animated by the individual.