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parts together, arid connecting them into a 

 whole, by means of the rules of symmetry 

 and proportion, which they had laid dowii 

 in consequence of repeated trials^ and like- 

 wise by the guidance of that nicety of taste 

 and judgment, which adds all that rules can- 

 not teach, they created, what has been called 

 ideal beauty. In one particular statue, Po- 

 lycletus so happily exemplified the rules 

 which he himself had committed to writing, 

 that they jointly obtained the name of the 

 canon; or the rule and model of the relation 

 which one part of the human figure bears to 

 the other, and of the result of the whole* 



Here, then, after long researches, is a 

 distinct central form, to which others may 

 be referred ; a form to which nothing could 

 be added, from which nothing could be 

 taken away : this, therefore, with such 

 other works of art, as were Wrought ac- 

 cording to the same rules, and in the same 



tioned that those artists made any corrections, in copying 

 that " human form divine,'* but thought it worthy of repre- 

 senting the goddess, to whose service it had alway3 beeri 

 dedicated. 



