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A PRIMITIVE TEMPLE
builder takes as his measure what is easiest and most constant, the tool that he is least likely to lose: his pace, his foot, his elbow, his finger.
In order to construct well and distribute his efforts to advantage, to obtain solidity and utility in the work, he has taken measures, he has adopted a unit of measurement, he has regulated his work, he has brought in order. For, all around him, the forest is in disorder with its creepers, Its briars and the tree-trunks which impede him and paralyse his efforts.
He has imposed order by means of measurement. In order to get his measurement he has taken his pace, his foot, his elbow or his finger. By imposing the order of his foot or his
