Out of chaosFrom the dust"In this, the crowning achievement of his career, Professor Halle presents a survey of all basic knowledge. As it unfolds under the reader's eyes, there emerges from it the vision of one universsal order that rises above the underlying chaos in which our lives are still so largely immersed. By bringing together in one perspective the physical universe, the evolution of life within it, the emergence of mind, and the fruits of mind's