Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian Architecture: With Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Art in Greece
Proportion will be determined by those whose taste is the most cultivated, and whose science is the most extensive but if there be some intrinsic charm, some peculiar grace, which is necessarily acknowledged and felt by all mankind; we then must look for some more general principle, which will accommodate itself to this more general feeling.
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