ABSTRACT
No one has yet written on the analogy of the proportions of Architecture with our sensations; we find only scattered fragments, superficial and, as it were, set down by chance. [. . .]
Hitherto it has been customary to work in accordance with the proportions of the five Orders of Architecture, used in the ancient buildings of Greece and Italy: this is a priceless model, and we cannot do better. But how many Artists have employed these Orders mechanically, without taking the opportunity to combine them into a whole with a character all its own, capable of producing certain sensations; they have not been inspired by the analogy and relation of those proportions with the affections of the soul.
