each figure as he looked at it became the master-figure or focus of the whole spectacle , by means of which his eye disentangled all else and brought it into unity - only to be itself entangled when he looked to what he had taken for mere marginal decorations and found that there also the same hegemony was claimed , and the claim made good , yet the former pattern not thereby dispossessed but finding in its new subordination a significance greater than that which it had abdicated .