If necessity is the mother of invention (as the old saying goes), perhaps human intellect is the father, and hard work is the midwife.
If necessity is the mother of invention (as the old saying goes), perhaps human intellect is the father, and hard work is the midwife.
There is a natural order to the universe, in which all effects have causes, and things operate by knowable laws. But from the perspective of human survival, there is a natural disorder to the universe too, that absent our productive action, forces both animate and inanimate would make of our world an unlivable chaos. One summer long ago I worked…