ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with man's taste in configurations and consequences arising therefrom. Man delights in perceived order; he is willing to expend labor on its achievement. A child can grasp and reproduce the structure of the copper crystal, but no human agency can forge this fantastically complicated signature which the gene repeats all over the body of one specific person. Surely so glaring an opposition should teach not to confuse order with organization. In terms of orchard example, the progress of science depends upon the ability of the mind to move away from the simplest type A arrangements to the conception of more intricate shapes. The desire to find things "obedient" to some principle is the mainspring of intellectual inquiry. The chapter seeks "hidden" principles of organization whose discovery reveals the orderliness of phenomena. In the course of his life an author has collected a private library attuned to his needs.
