Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 108
an entire absence of any ruling principle in their evolution. Attentive study, however, will show that the apparent vagaries are the result of order and method in development ; and it is precisely this ruling principle that the student of design should endeavour to grasp, for it will not only… … develop it in the same manner, there will be \A)I like results. Again, on the basis of either of these
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