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     nature of faith to his intellect. (pp. 29­31)

     Panofsky then notes (p. 43) the “principle of
transparency” in architecture: “It was, however, in architecture
that the habit of clarification achieved its greatest triumphs.
As High Scholasticism was governed by the principle of
manifestatio , so was High Gothic architecture dominated—as
already observed by Suger—by what may be called the
“principle of transparency.” Panofsky gives us (p. 38) the
medieval sense doctrine as stated by Aquinas: “The senses
delight in things duly proportioned as in something akin to
them; for, the sense, too, is a kind of reason as is every
cognitive power .” Armed with this principle that there is a ratio
or rationality in the senses themselves, Panofsky is able to
move freely among the ratios that are between medieval
scholasticism and medieval architecture. But this principle of