Putting the World into Categories “Imagine that you wanted to say, ‘The world can be divided into six major classifications.’ That is, you wanted to deal with ‘the principles of Order,’ beginning with the natural order, and placing humanity’s socio-political order with reference to it. But you wanted to treat these matters in narrative terms, which necessarily involve temporal sequence.… “Stated narratively (in the style of Genesis …), such an idea of principles, or ‘firsts,’ would not be stated