One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.
It is hard to imagine defining a natural order of things without the definition being subject to cultural biases or economic influences. I used to indulge in the vague writings of and about (mostly about) secret societies and brotherhoods which claimed to have an understanding, passed continuously from the earliest days of human consciousness, about the relationship between humans and this earth on which we play. The relationship became muddied as language became more complex. Language itself became a self-contained reality, capable of great magnificence but not always capable of communicating from that natural, pre-lingual state in which humans lived. I used to be more articulate on this subject but as I contemplate it now it seems like one could empty the ocean with a thimble before reaching clarity. I hear little talk in our time, though, about the natural order of things as applied to modern life. Some trends can be fascinatingly credited to geological formations or the time of year at which a certain part of the population was born. Other trends can be connected to seemingly incongruous events. But where is there a genuine low-level continuity which bonds all human endeavors?
