The circle also fulfils but imperfectly the demands of the fundamental canon.

This principle is his fundamental canon of pictorial art.

This preference for symmetry is, however, frequently subordinated to higher demands of the fundamental canon.

The forms of organic life afford, however, the best examples of the dominion of our fundamental canon.

The Government has been accused of ignoring a " fundamental canon of taxation law" in its property tax proposals.

She knew she was again violating the fundamental canon of success; whatever one's business, do it thoroughly if at all.

This last sentence we regard as the fundamental canon concerning beauty,-governing ,witha slight change of terms, beauty in all its departments.

In music, its fundamental canons have been thrown aside and discord has been substituted for harmony as its ideal.

But in its negative effects the tendency of the leisure-class discipline is not so unequivocally true to the fundamental canons of the scheme.