Herbert ReadThinkers

Chaos is simply matter disturbed by immaterial forces.

Erotica is distinguished from pornography in that it stimulates vague sexual emotions but leaves everything to the imagination. Why it is felt that there's no harm in this is a bit of a mystery.

Nature 1s 2ost general law is equity... that is, structural efficiency, or the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms.

Pornography is distinguished from erotica in that erotica stimulates vague sexual emotions but leaves everything to the imagination. Why this serves as a justification for erotica and an argument against pornography is a mystery.

Symmetry is, along with balance, the most general law in nature. Together they guide the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Truth is what men kill each other for.