When Some French Were Assembling An Encyclopedia

Beauty Is Power And Elegance, Right Action, Form Fitting Function, Intelligence, And Reasonability. And Very Often Expressed In Curves.

We Dream, We Wake On A Cold Hillside, We Pursue The Dream Again. In The Beginning Was The Dream, And The Work Of Disenchantment Never Ends.

Anyway That's A Large Part Of What Economics Is - People Arbitrarily, Or As A Matter Of Taste, Assigning Numerical Values To Non-numerical Things. And Then Pretending That They Haven't Just Made The Numbers Up, Which They Have. Economics Is Like Astrology In That Sense, Except That Economics Serves To Justify The Current Power Structure, And So It Has A Lot Of Fervent Believers Among The Powerful

Atoms Have A Nucleus, Made Of Protons And Neutrons Bound Together. Around This Nucleus Shells Of Electrons Spin, And Each Shell Is Either Full Or Trying To Get Full, To Balance With The Number Of Protons-to Balance The Number Of Positive And Negative Charges. An Atom Is Like A Human Heart, You See.

Look At The Pattern This Seashell Makes. The Dappled Whorl, Curving Inward To Infinity. That's The Shape Of The Universe Itself. There's Constant Pressure, Pushing Towards Pattern. A Tendency In Matter To Evolve Into Ever More Complex Forms. It's A Kind Of Pattern Gravity, A Holy Greening Power We Call 'viriditas' And It Is The Driving Force In The Cosmos. Life, You See.