ABSTRACT
In this world of conflict, a beauty is possible that can bring, even if only for a moment, a sense of perfection. In principle no other justification of human existence is necessary. A moment of beauty is potentially eternal, and can restore us to ourselves by reminding us that the experience of perfection is always possible. "Mechanism" is not the element common to external nature and to thought; an ordering tendency is. So adapting our thought to nature without and within, we replace God by the nisus toward order evident within us and around us. This is an old theme, at last to be made fertile. "Disorder" is subtler, being negative, and is perhaps really an expression of ignorance. The universe confronts us with this obvious but far reaching fact. It is not a mere confusion, but is arranged in units which attract our attention, larger and smaller units in a series of discrete "levels".
