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Show variety of things make a unique, an identical impression. Xenophanes complained i his old age, that, look where he would, al thing hastene bac to Unity H wa weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms. The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth. Every particula in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, an partakes of the perfection of the whole Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world @ Not only resemblances exist in thing whose analogy is obvious, as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus, but also in object wherein there is great superficial unlikeness. Thus architecture is called ¢froze music,' by De Stael and Goethe. ‘A Gothi church,' said Coleridge, ‘is a petrified religion." Michael Angelo maintained, that to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy i essential. In Haydn's oratorios, the note present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, & the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass The granite is differenced in its laws onl by the more or less of heat, from the rive 5 Digital Image © 2005Marriott L |