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Having been let in, I passed the tests, and right away I hastened
to refresh my memory as to the composition and structure of alloxan.
Here is its portrait:

in which O is oxygen, C is carbon, H is hydrogen, and N nitrogen.
It is a pretty structure, isn't it? It makes you think of something solid, stable, well linked. In fact it happes also in chemistry as in architecture that "beautiful" edifices, that is, symmetrical and simple,
are also the most sturdy: in short, the same thing happens with molecules
as with the cupolas of cathedrals or the arches of bridges. And it is also possible that the explanation is neither remote nor metaphysical: to say "beautiful" is to say "desirable," and ever since man has built he has
wanted to build at the smallest expense and in the most durable fashion, and the aesthetic enjoyment he experiences when contemplating his work comes afterward. Certainly, it has always been this way: there have been centuries in which "beauty" was identified with adornment, the superimposed, the frills; but is probable that they were deviant epochs and that the tue beauty, in which every century recognizes itself, is found in upright stones, ships' hulls, the blade of an ax, the wing of a plane.