without diminishing the points of unity,the unity of direction being replaced by that of curvature,&c, and thus the beauty is greatly augmented. We may illustrate these principles by a figure (a) com-posed of concentric circles placed at random, and varyingIrregularly in every thing except… … ABC D centric. We gain nothing by equalizing their thicknesses 130 HISTORY AND RUDIMENTS and the spaces between them (as at b,) because this is sim-ply substituting (in both alterations) unity for variety,which, in both cases, we abandon. But in c, the two prin-ciples are reconciled, the variety in…
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