... judging of the unknown by the known, of the invisible by the visible, and of the whole by a part. Great and important as is this law, and giving us as it does a key to the mysteries of things, ... advocated the circle as the highest form of beauty, while the more cultured taste of the Greeks preferred the ellipse, the oval and other sections of a cone. The circle is the stiffest of curves, ... manly man by the side of a womanly woman, the man setting off by his size and ruder power the delicacy and grace of the woman, while the woman enhances the majesty of the man by her more petite...