[81] Eurhythmie, that is, eurhythmy or a rhythmic movement between the several parts.
[82] I presume this is the meaning of die Theorie here. That is the purposeful motive of the architectural skeleton of the fabric—what explains it rationally.
[83] Schiebens. It is possible that Hegel uses the word in its primary sense of "shifting."
[84] The idea is slightly confused in the course of the sentence. It is not the necessity (des Bedürfnisses) to build a stable house which has to be held in position, etc., but the structure which that necessity forces men to construct in a certain way.
[85] Ihre eigenen Momente. "Its unique traits" is possibly adequate here.
[86] Hegel probably has in his mind when using the expression verständig bestimmte the close analogy between the self-exclusive concreteness of reason and the completeness of the circular figure.
[87] It is not quite clear what Hegel means by the Köpfen der Deckenbalken. The technical word that corresponds to Deckenbalken is "joists"; here, according to the words that follow, it would appear to mean either the last horizontal line of the architrave or the entire growth of the triglyph. As he uses the word Zwischenraümen after we appear to be driven on the latter alternative. The frieze, of course, was the entire space between cornice and architrave, including both triglyphs and metopes.
[88] Called femora. They were divided by two gutters or drills. The triglyph slightly projected and united perpendicularly cornice and architrave.
[89] Die Baukunst nach den Grunds. der Alten, Berlin, 1808, S. III.
[90] He means that the distinct functions are not assigned to those features of the building to which they are naturally or most essentially related.