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breaking in one place more, in another less, into 

 the principal forms that are to be united, produce 

 that variety with which all nature abotuids, and 

 without which grotmd cannot be natural. 



" The relation of all the parts to the whole when 

 clearly marked, facilitates their junction with each 

 other : for the common bond of union is then perceived, 

 before there has been time to examine the subordinate 

 connexions; and if these should be deficient in some 

 niceties, the defect is lost in the general impression. 

 But any part that is at variance with the rest, is not 

 barely a blemish in itself : it spreads disorder as far as 

 its influence extends; and the confusion is in pro- 

 portion as the other parts are more or less adapted, 

 to point out any particular direction, or to mark any 

 peculiar character in the ground. 



"If in ground all descending one way, a piece is 

 twisted across another, the general fall is obstructed 

 by it, but if all the parts incline in the same direction, 

 it is hardly credible how small a declivity will seem to 

 be considerable. An appearance even of steepness 

 may be given to a very gentle descent, by raising 

 hillocks up on it which shall lean to the point, whither 

 all the rest are tending, for the eye measures from 

 the top of the highest to the bottom of the lowest 

 ground; and when the relation of the parts is well 

 preserved, such an effect from one is transfused over 

 the whole. 



"But they should not, therefore, all lie exactly in 

 the same direction; some may seem to point to it 



