What is "equipoised"

Usage examples of "equipoised".

But if, reverend Judges, you deem this equipoised, indifferent lanthorn to be indeed blameworthy for having shown in the same moment, side by side, the skull and the fair face, the burdock and the tiger-lily, the butterfly and toad, then, most reverend Judges, punish it, but do not punish this old man, for he himself is but a flume of smoke, thistle down dispersed-- nothing!

And what are we--ripples on the tides of a birthless, deathless, equipoised Creative-Purpose--but little works of Art?