Full Idea
All things were together, and Mind came and set them in order.
Gist of Idea
When things were unified, Mind set them in order
Source
Anaxagoras (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE])
Book Reference
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.5
A Reaction
This is presumably the source for the passionate belief of Plato in the importance of order. Existence seems like chaos, with order residing beneath it, but we can wonder whether if we go even deeper it is chaos again.