Fleeming, under Dr. Bell's
direction, applied the same method to the other orders, and again
found the proportions accurately given. Numbers of diagrams were
prepared; but the discovery was never given to the world, perhaps
because of the dissensions that arose between the authors. For Dr.
Bell believed that 'these intersections were in some way connected
with, or symbolical of, the antagonistic forces at work'; but his
pupil and helper, with characteristic trenchancy, brushed aside
this mysticism, and interpreted the discovery as 'a geometrical
method of dividing the spaces or (as might be said) of setting out
the work, purely empirical and in no way connected with any laws of
either force or beauty.' 'Many a hard and pleasant fight we had
over it,' wrote Jenkin, in later years; 'and impertinent as it may
seem, the pupil is still unconvinced by the arguments of the
master.' I do not know about the antagonistic forces in the Doric
order; in Fleeming they were plain enough; and the Bobadil of these
affairs with Dr.
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