...being." He then goes into various details of the relative proportions of the human body, and adds, — " Since, therefore, the human frame appears to have...formed with such propriety that the several members are commeiisnrate with the whole, the artists of antiquity* must be allowed to have followed the dictates...

...stretched out laterally, will be more than the full stature. Vitruvius concludes by observing : — " Since, therefore, the human frame appears to have...most rational when, transferring to the works of art the principles derived from nature, every part was so regulated as to bear a just proportion to the...

...principles of which ought to be familiar to all who profess the science of architecture," he says — " the artists of antiquity must be allowed to have followed...regulated as to bear a just proportion to the whole. And those principles were more particularly attended to in the construction of temples and sacred edifices,...