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quality which pervades the whole § as in the colour of a land- 

 scape under the warm tint of sunset ; or of form, as in a grove 

 of oaks ; or of sound, as in the Scotch bagpipe. Unity is a 

 very great beauty, and in landscape often supplies the place 

 of many others, as in moon-light or twilight scenes. 



Order consists in the relation of parts to each other, or to 

 one common centre. Unity may exist in a mass, composed, 

 for example, of twigs, branches, and foliage ; but it is order 

 only which forms them into a tree. An animal may be sym- 

 metrical, it may have all the members which animals of its 

 kind have ; but unless order dispose of them in their proper 

 places, it will not be complete. It is order in the arrangement 

 of the colours of the rainbow which produces a whole ; for the 

 same colours might have been placed together agreeable to the 

 principles of harmony, and yet have made it appear as com- 

 posed of two bows placed together. Regular order gives con- 

 siderable pleasure, as in regularly trained trees placed against 

 a wall ; when joined with variety and intricacy, it is greatly 

 heightened ; as in a tree in its natural state, or any production 

 of nature composed of many parts. 



Confusion is the opposite of order ; it is easily discovered ; 

 and its opposite is so generally expected, that the absence of no 

 beauty, either in form or manner, so soon occasions dislike. 



