Entropy Theory, On The Other Hand, Is

Both Art And Science Are Bent On The Understanding Of The Forces That Shape Existence, And Both Call For A Dedication To What Is. Neither Of Them Can Tolerate Capricious Subjectivity Because Both Are Subject To Their Criteria Of Truth. Both Require Precision, Order, And Discipline Because No Comprehensible Statement Can Be Made Without These. Both Accept The Sensory World As What The Middle Ages Called Signatura Regrum, The Signature Of Things, But In Quite Different Ways.

Climbing Is A Heroic Liberating Act; And Height Spontaneously Symbolizes Things Of High Value, Be It In The Value Of Worldly Power Or Of Spirituality. To Rise In An Elevator, Balloon, Or Airplane Is To Experience Being Liberated From Weight, Sublimated, Invested With Superhuman Abilities. In Addition, To Rise From The Earth Is To Approach The Realm Of Light And Overview. Therefore The Negative Overcoming Of Weight Is At The Same Time The Positive Achievement Of Enlightenment And An Unobstructed Outlook.

Television Is A New, Hard Test Of Our Wisdom. If We Succeed In Mastering The New Medium It Will Enrich Us. But It Can Also Put Our Mind To Sleep. We Must Not Forget That In The Past The Inability To Transport Immediate Experience And To Convey It To Others Made The Use Of Language Necessary And Thus Compelled The Human Mind To Develop Concepts. For In Order To Describe Things One Must Draw The General From The Specific; One Must Select, Compare, Think. When Communication Can Be Achieved By Pointing With The Finger, However, The Mouth Grows Silent, The Writing Hand Stops, And The Mind Shrinks.

The Dance, Just As The Performance Of The Actor, Is Kinesthetic Art, Art Of The Muscle Sense. The Awareness Of Tension And Relaxation Within His Own Body, The Sense Of Balance That Distinguishes The Proud Stability Of The Vertical From The Risky Adventures Of Thrusting And Falling--these Are The Tools Of The Dancer.

The Clarification Of Visual Forms And Their Organization In Integrated Patterns As Well As The Attribution Of Such Forms To Suitable Objects Is One Of The Most Effective Training Grounds Of The Young Mind.