The Balance of Measures here is just as good as it is in [Fig. 133]. The attitudes are changed but not the relation of the three balance-centers. The change of shape in the inclosure makes no difference.
100. Measure-Balance without Shape-Harmony or Shape-Balance is satisfactory only when the balance-center is unmistakably indicated or suggested, as in the examples which I have given.
101. There is another form of Balance which is to be inferred from what I have said, on [page 18], of the Balance of Directions, but it needs to be particularly considered and more fully illustrated. I mean a Balance in which directions or inclinations to the right are counteracted by corresponding or equivalent directions or inclinations to the left. The idea in its simplest and most obvious form is illustrated in [Fig. 22, on page 18]. In that case the lines of inclination correspond. They do not necessarily correspond except in the extent of contrast, which may be distributed in various ways.
Fig. 135
The balance of inclinations in this case is just as good as the balance in [Fig. 22]. There is no symmetry as in Fig. 22. Three lines balance against one. The three lines, however, show the same extent of contrast as the one. So far as the inclinations are concerned they will balance in any arrangement which lies well within the field of vision. The eye must be able to appreciate the fact that a disposition to fall to the right is counteracted by a corresponding or equivalent disposition to fall to the left.
Fig. 136
This arrangement of the inclining lines is just as good as the arrangement in Fig. 135. The inclinations may be distributed in any way, provided they counteract one another properly.
