"Suppose that we are asked to arrange the following in two categories— distance, mass, electric force, entropy, beauty, melody. [T]here are the strongest grounds for placing entropy alongside beauty and melody... Entropy is only found when the parts are viewed in association... [as are] beauty and melody. All three are features of arrangement. ...The reason why this [entropy] stranger can pass itself off among the aborigines of the physical world is... the language of arithmetic. It has... measure-number... at home in physics."

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