the universe—tendency of structure to symmetry or order. And it is from this single orderly tendency that all existent stable structures—all the variety of species on earth—were formed. Nature could not be more economical. But in the absence of the insight provided by unitary science, this profound economy or conservatism of nature was interpreted by classical science as conservation of matter and energy.
Contrary to tendency, circumstance is unpredictable, random, and arbitrary. It bears no necessary relation to the system whose fate it determines. And it presents itself in various degrees of intensity. When too severe, the clash between chance and the existent order may be destructive—and disorder occurs. But when less severe, circumstance may not destroy a system but simply modifies it. And when tendency and circumstance work in balance, they are the source of novelty. The novel forms maintain the same orderly tendency in a new structural pattern.
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