 In a holistic reaction, the Romantics portray the new boundaries as no more real than the grid lines of a microscope. The specimen under the slide lacks boundaries. Understanding does not require boundaries. Organizing items along a spectrum is a natural form of classification. We comprehend this analog grouping more readily and smoothly than we grasp the digital groupings instilled by Descartes’ algebraic representation of space. If our metaphysics of classification is constricted by a logic designed for mathematics, the sorites paradox will make us see disorder where there is really order of a more fluid sort. Spontaneous arrangements will bring what order is permitted by the subject matter. Romantic biologists take to the field and refuse to pen species within the axes of the Cartesian coordinate system. Confronted with novel phenomena such as evolution, magnetism and electricity, Romantic scientists bypassed boundaries. 