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the Perpendicular, which is the First Normal Posture 

 or Position ; and if we proceed, in our thoughts, from 

 Below, Upward, which is the First or Normal Drift 

 of Direction, or the Natural Order; this Thought-Line 

 will have, First, a Foundation or Lowest Point or 

 Basis, the point upon which it rests, the Analogue of 

 Nature ; and Second, an Upper Portion, the Ferrima 

 or Form, the Line per se, the Analogue of Science. 

 "We might then add the upper end or superior point 

 of the Line as the Third Step, as the Analogue of Art ; 

 in accordance with the Axiom, Finis coronat opus (the 

 end crowns the work) ; but this Upper End, the Head 

 of the Column or Line, is also the Basis of the In- 

 verted Procedure, when the thought begins to de- 

 scend ; for, analogically, Ideal and Spiritual Founda- 

 tions are above. Confining ourselves, on the contrary, 

 to the Ascending Drift of Thought, there is, as it 

 were, a Finer Interposed Point, a Point of Unition 

 and Conjunction between the Basis-Point of the 

 Line and the Ferrima ; between Nature and Science ; 

 between Foundation and Superstructure ; which In- 

 terposed Point may be also taken as the Analogue of 

 Life and Movement, and hence also of Art the 

 germinating Punctum Vitce or Point of Life ; pivot- 

 ally situated, as it were, between the other two stages 

 and forms of development. To change the figure 

 from Edifice and Line to the Plant or Tree, the Point 

 in question is the Germinal Point, within the Seed, as 

 the Analogue of Art, or of Vital Movement, within 

 the Plant ; and, as it were, between the Seed and 

 Hoot, extending downward or beneath the Earth's 



