Order The first of the soul's needs, the one which touches most nearly its eternal destiny, is order. A free mind is an understanding mind, a mind that has found its place, judged its power, and made its peace with the natural order of which it is part. A just man finds satisfaction in the knowledge that society has various roles for various kinds of people and that they in the performance of these roles create a kind of symphony of labor, play, and social life. Nothing can better attach a man to the preservation of order than the possession of a home.
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
I in complete law and order in a world which objectively exists and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Mankind has lost the habit of thinking of things in general as set in an orderly universe.