Note 129 — Chapter VII · DEDUCTION OF ART-FORMS

Vernon Lee and Anstrather Thompson, “Beauty and Ugliness,” in the Contemporary Review, vol. lxxii. 1897, p. 559: “To this quality of mere complexity of surface, pattern adds by its regularity the power of compelling the eye and breath to move at an even and unbroken pace. Even the simplest, therefore, of the patterns ever used have a power akin to that of march music, for they compel our organism to a regular rhythmical mode of being.”