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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.

Now The Work Of Art Also Represents A State Of Final Equilibrium, Of Accomplished Order And Maximum Relative Entropy, And There Are Those Who Resent It. But Art Is Not Meant To Stop The Stream Of Life. Within A Narrow Span Of Duration And Space The Work Of Art Concentrates A View Of The Human Condition; And Sometimes It Marks The Steps Of Progression, Just As A Man Climbing The Dark Stairs Of A Medieval Tower Assures Himself By The Changing Sights Glimpsed Through Its Narrow Windows That He Is Getting Somewhere After All.

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

The Experienced Physician, Mechanic, Or Physiologist Looking At A Wound, An Engine, A Microscopic Preparation, "sees" Things The Novice Does Not See. If Both, Experts And Laymen, Were Asked To Make Exact Copies Of What They See, Their Drawings Would Be Quite Different.

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