In Many Instances, Order Is Apprehended First

A System Is In Equilibrium When The Forces Constituting It Are Arranged In Such A Way As To Compensate Each Other, Like The Two Weights Pulling At The Arms Of A Pair Of Scales.

When The Thing Observed... Is Seen As An Agglomeration Of Pieces, The Details Lose Their Meaning And The Whole Becomes Unrecognizable. This Is Often True Of Snapshots In Which No Pattern Of Salient Shapes Organizes The Mass Of Vague And Complex Nuances.

The Foreign Accent Was A Promise, And Indeed, All Over The Country, European Imports Added Spice To The Sciences, The Arts, And Other Areas. What One Had To Give Was Not Considered Inferior To What One Received.

Order Is A Prerequisite Of Survival; Therefore The Impulse To Produce Orderly Arrangements Is Inbred By Evolution.

Entropy Theory, On The Other Hand, Is Not Concerned With The Probability Of Succession In A Series Of Items But With The Overall Distribution Of Kinds Of Items In A Given Arrangement.