The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . or Roman arches withkeystones, their weisrht c:ives stabilitv to the walls and firmnessto the arches. The United States Capitol, at Washington, has THE LAW OF PERFECTION. 47 a dome which ranks among the great ones of the world, but de-pends upon gradation almost wholly for its effect. The Hoteldies Invalide
The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . or Roman arches withkeystones, their weisrht c:ives stabilitv to the walls and firmnessto the arches. The United States Capitol, at Washington, has THE LAW OF PERFECTION. 47 a dome which ranks among the great ones of the world, but de-pends upon gradation almost wholly for its effect. The Hoteldies Invalides, Paris (fig. 107), adds to its gradations those angu-lar and projecting forms which give contrast, while the new Con-necticut State House dome, at Hartford (Fig. 108), becomesstill more spirited in its fine contrasts and still more elegant inin its gradations of size and direction than either of the has a form which is a transition from the dome to the 109, is the central lower of the magnificent New York Statecapitol at Albany, and although an elaborate piece of architec-ture, it is built in the renaissance style and hardly knows whetherto assume the spirited combinations of the Gothic or the tamergrace of the Roman arch system, or the pediments and horizon-. Fig. 106. Fie;. 107. Dome Fig. 108. Fig. 109. Central Fig. 110. Tower Dome of Capitol of Hotel des Inva- Conn. State Tower of the N. of Memorial Hall,at Washington, lides, Paris. House. Y. State House. Harvard University. tal lines of the Greek architecture, and thus must be pronounceddeficient in individuality and analogical harmony. Not so withthe Gothic tower of the Memorial Hall of Harvard University(Fig. 110), which is one of the finest styles of architecture in thecountry, spirited in its angles, colors and forms and yet refinedin its gradations. It borrows some of its refinement from theMansard Gothic. Fig. Ill, from the same building, has much ofthe effectiveness of a spire and yet simplicit
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