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                                                                      	or certain fitness of proportion as subtile and as inde-
                                                                      finable as the less or more of colour in the touch of a
                                                                      great painter, which, while we can recognise when it is
                                                                      right, it is utterly hopeless to define in quantity - or 
                                                                      to say in what measure it should be altered if its place
                                                                      and intention were changed.
                                                                      It has just been observed that there is a limit to slen-
                                                                      derness in the onconvenience of the narrowed interval:
                                                                      But in saying this, it is assumed that the interval is
                                                                      one which is to be traversed by men; and a certain rela-
                                                                      tion of the shaft to the size of the human figure, becomes
                                                                      under such circumstances a matter of necessity;  When
                                                                      shafts are used in the upper stages of buildings - or in
                                                                      any other place, and on a scale, small or large, which
                                                                      ignores the relation to the human figure;  so such
                                                                      limites exist either to slenderness or solidity.
                                                                       Again, it is evidently in the power of the architect to
                                                                      use his columns either of eq al or unequal size verging
                                                                      to the side of over slenderness in one cases and of over
                                                                      solidity, alternately;  also to place them at regular
                                                                      or irregular intervals, or in groups;  modes of arrange-
                                                                      ment which admitting, of an infinity still more vast in
                                                                      (the matter of) proportion of single shafts, would mever-
                                                                      theless in general be constructively

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