Punishment conceived as the logical nemesis of the criminal's principle is embedded in a goodless normative framework; that is its home.

The joys of horse and rattling, rich reward for boyhood toil, bucking cart, riding high on the hay, your father pacing at the rein; a tiny returning champion, skin like leather; all now squared into an oil fairytale to perch in maidenless parlours and picturesque postcards who know nothing of you.

The golden ratio (φ) is an algebraic number since it is a solution of the quadratic equation x²+x-1=0, whose coefficients are integers.

His conclusion though is illuminating, and established a theme that was to concern him for the next forty years of his life, becoming the idée fixe of works such as The Ghost in the Machine, The Act of Creation and the Roots of Coincidence.