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THE LAWS OF FESOLE
I think you will like it better; for the lowest circle now
seems a little related to the others, like a pendant. But
the form is still unsatisfactory.
Take the group in Figure 7, above, then, and add the
fifth sixpence to the top of that (Fig. 9).
Are you not better pleased ? There seems now a unity
of vertical position in three circles, and of level position in
suggestion of a pendant, or
if you turn the page upside-
down, of a statant,^ cross.
If, however, you now
raise the two level circles,
and the lowest, so as to get
the arrangement in Figure
10, the result is a quite
balanced group; more pleas-
ing, if I mistake not, than
any we have arrived at yet,
because we have here perfect
order, with an unequal suc-
cession of magnitudes in
mass and interval, between
the outer circles.
12. By now gradually increasing the number of coins,
we can deduce a large variety of groups more or less pleas-
ing, which you will find, on the whole, throw themselves
either into shapes,—seven, eight, and so on, in
a circle, with differences in the intervals;—or into
* Clearly, this Latin derivative is needed in English, besides our own
"standing"; to distinguish, on occasion, a permanently bxed "state" oi
anything, from a temporary pause. Stant, (as in extant,) would be merely
the translation of "standing"; so I assume a participle of the obsolete
"statare " to connect the adopted word with Statina (the goddess), Statue,
and Stated
i [Statina is mentioned by Tertullian 39) as the goddess who helps children
to stand. "The obsolete 'statare'" seems to be rather a coinage of Ruskin's. The
words are derived either from .!?o, or (when transitive in sense) from
two: and you get also some
THE LAWS OF FESOLE
I think you will like it better; for the lowest circle now
seems a little related to the others, like a pendant. But
the form is still unsatisfactory.
Take the group in Figure 7, above, then, and add the
fifth sixpence to the top of that (Fig. 9).
Are you not better pleased ? There seems now a unity
of vertical position in three circles, and of level position in
suggestion of a pendant, or
if you turn the page upside-
down, of a statant,^ cross.
If, however, you now
raise the two level circles,
and the lowest, so as to get
the arrangement in Figure
10, the result is a quite
balanced group; more pleas-
ing, if I mistake not, than
any we have arrived at yet,
because we have here perfect
order, with an unequal suc-
cession of magnitudes in
mass and interval, between
the outer circles.
12. By now gradually increasing the number of coins,
we can deduce a large variety of groups more or less pleas-
ing, which you will find, on the whole, throw themselves
either into shapes,—seven, eight, and so on, in
a circle, with differences in the intervals;—or into
* Clearly, this Latin derivative is needed in English, besides our own
"standing"; to distinguish, on occasion, a permanently bxed "state" oi
anything, from a temporary pause. Stant, (as in extant,) would be merely
the translation of "standing"; so I assume a participle of the obsolete
"statare " to connect the adopted word with Statina (the goddess), Statue,
and Stated
i [Statina is mentioned by Tertullian 39) as the goddess who helps children
to stand. "The obsolete 'statare'" seems to be rather a coinage of Ruskin's. The
words are derived either from .!?o, or (when transitive in sense) from
two: and you get also some