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                                                                      	 the one side also, there is a limit to the multiplication
                                                                      of the slender shaft, in the inconvenience of the narrowest
                                                                      interval:  on the other, a limit to the expansion of
                                                                      the massy shaft in the inconvenient space taken from the
                                                                      width of the building.  Between these extremes the
                                                                      architects choice will be regulated by his intention
                                                                      of graceful or grand expression;  remembering always
                                                                      that it is best to lean towards the side of grandeur
                                                                      because constructively strength and material are always
                                                                      lost by sub division of substance in the shafts;  and that
                                                                      arrangement of proportion will generally be the best
                                                                      which is a natural and rational mean between the two ex-
                                                                      tremes, after due consideration of the materials both of
                                                                      the shafts and superstructure.  For of course more slender
                                                                      shafts may be safely used when they can be cut out of a
                                                                      tough stone than of a brittle one;  and when they can be
                                                                      cut out of a single block, than when they must be made of
                                                                      many pieces;  All these circumstances must be known before
                                                                      as well as the Expressional intention, before we can say
                                                                      whether such and such a shaft is truly proportioned or not
                                                                      and there is literally an infinite license of various
                                                                      proportion correspondent to the infinite charges of such
                                                                      circumstances but there is in everycase, supposing them
                                                                      all known

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