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                                                                      	1.   The Wall is either the Support of the Roof, or it is
                                                                      the enclosure of privacy:  Or it excludes Hostility,
                                                                      one of these Functions it must have:  It is either
                                                                      Support or shelter, or defence.
	Add here the wall for effect of Surface:  Aesthetic in               In relation to these three functions;  a wall is to be
building where height does not properly admit of detached             considered either as - a supporting vertical pressure,
shafts, conf p 14. (2)                                                b.  supporting lateral pressure, whether from an oblique
                                                                      roof - or external violence;  c as a veil, only;
                                                                       Now if the function be to support Vertical pressure only;
                                                                      the wall is of course but built where the given pressure is
	Function a;  Bearing of Vertical Pressure   By general               supported with the smallest quantity of naterial.  All
principle:  that the best is that which is done with                  redundant material is an offence to the eye:
least material, and it being evident, etc.                            Now it is evident or if not evident, mathematically de-
                                                                      monstrable that the more solidly the materials are ar-
                                                                      ranged, the more weight they will bear:  and also that
                                                                      the most compact form in which they can be arranged is
                                                                      that of a succession of cylindrical masses.  This there-
                                                                      fore is the best possible form in which vertical support
                                                                      can be attained;  and every truly noble building that
                                                                      ever was built, or ever will be, consists and mustconsist
                                                                      so far as concerns its vertical pressures, of some modi-
                                                                      fication of i ;  It is the Pillar support which has been
                                                                      the source of grace and strength in the buildings of all
                                                                      great nations, from the infancy of the worldtill now
                                                                      and must be, so long as the laws of gravity remain un-
                                                                      changed.

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