A Search for Structure

A Search for Structure by Smith, Cyril Stanley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780262191913.

Collection of essays written by Cyril Smith that trace the evolution of his ideas pertaining to the common patterns of hierarchical order shared by technology, science, art, and history. For the author, the transformation of metals from one state to another, or the contrasts at one level that merge though repetition into uniformity at a higher level, carries solid metaphorical implications for the human condition.