Order Is A Prerequisite Of Survival; Therefore

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.

Orderliness By Itself Is Not Sufficient To Account For The Nature Of Organized Systems In General Or For Those Created By Man In Particular. Mere Orderliness Leads To Increasing Impoverishment And Finally To The Lowest Possible Level Of Structure, No Longer Clearly Distinguishable From Chaos, Which Is The Absence Of Order. A Counterprinciple Is Needed, To Which Orderliness Is Secondary. It Must Supply What Is To Be Ordered.

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.

Order Is A Necessary Condition For Making A Structure Function. A Physical Mechanism, Be It A Team Of Laborers, The Body Of An Animal, Or A Machine, Can Work Only If It Is In Physical Order.

All Perceiving Is Also Thinking, All Reasoning Is Also Intuition, All Observation Is Also Invention.