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elements that constitute a Summa was to ensure validity.
But he would not have been satisfied had not the
membrification of the edifice permitted him to re-
experience the very processes of cogitation. To him, the
panoply of shafts, ribs, buttresses, tracery, pinnacles,
and crockets was a self-analysis and self-explication of
architecture much as the customary apparatus of parts,
distinctions, questions, and articles was, to him, a self-
analysis and self-explication of reason. Where the
humanistic mind demanded a maximum of “harmony”
(impeccable diction in writing, impeccable proportion, so
sorely missed in Gothic structures by Vasari, in
architecture), the Scholastic mind demanded a maximum
of explicitness. It accepted and insisted upon a gratuitous
clarification of function through form just as it accepted
and insisted upon a gratuitous clarification of thought