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the chin to the under side of the nostrils, and thence tothe middle of the eyebrows the same; from the last tothe roots of the hair, where the forehead ends, the re-maining third part. The length of the foot is a sixthpart of the height of the body. The fore-arm a fourthpart. The width of the breast a fourth part. Simi-larly have the other members their due proportions, byattention to which the ancient Painters and Sculptorsobtained so much reputation. Just so the parts of Tem-ples should correspond with each other, and with thewhole. The navel is naturally placed in the centre ofthe human body, and, if in a man lying with his faceupward, and his hands and feet extended, from hisnavel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touchhis fingers and toes. It is not alone by a circle, that thehuman body is thus circumscribed, as may be seen byplacing it within a square. For measuring from thefeet to the crown of the head, and then across the armsfully extended, we find the latter measure equal to theformer; so that lines at right angles to each other, en-closing the figure, will form a square. If Nature, there-fore, has made the human body so that the differentmembers of it are measures of the whole, so the ancientshave, with great propriety, determined that in all perfectworks, each part should be some aliquot part of thewhole ; and since they direct, that this be observed inall works, it must be most strictly attended to in templesof the gods, wherein the faults as well as the beautiesremain to the end of time. It is worthy of remark, thatthe measures necessarily used in all buildings and otherworks, are derived from the members of the humanbody, as the digit, the palm, the foot, the cubit, and thatthese form a perfect number, called by the Greek re'Xaos.The ancients considered ten a perfect number, becausethe fingers are ten in number, and the palm is derivedfrom them, and from the palm is derived the foot. Plato,therefore, called ten a perfect number. For nature