Kelley, Charles Fabens, 1885-, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Mowll, William Luther, joint author · Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 24
; occult balance is neversymmetrical. The law of occult balance is much like thelaw of moments in phj^sics, with the difference that, insteadof varying weights, varying interests are involved. If itbecomes desirable to cause given spots or areas to appearbalanced without modifying them or their… … to retain. Better, a line may be circumscribed about thegroup, forming an outline, the center of which coincideswith the center of interest of the groupcontained. The spots seem at once tohave a certain relation to one anotherthat was lacking before, and appear per-fectly at rest within the…
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