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(2) The conception of a whole as lying at the foundation both of

politics and of art, in the latter supplying the only principle

of criticism, which, under the various names of harmony,

symmetry, measure, proportion, unity, the Greek seems to have

applied to works of art.

(3) The requirement that the State should be limited in size,

after the traditional model of a Greek state; as in the Politics

of Aristotle, the fact that the cities of Hellas were small is

converted into a principle.

(4) The humorous pictures of the lean dogs and the fatted sheep,

of the light active boxer upsetting two stout gentlemen at least,

of the 'charming' patients who are always making themselves

worse; or again, the playful assumption that there is no State

but our own; or the grave irony with which the statesman is

excused who believes that he is six feet high because he is told

so, and having nothing to measure with is to be pardoned for his

ignorance-he is too amusing for us to be seriously angry with

him.