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Excerpt from The National Character of English Architecture: The Chancellor's Essay MCMVIII
And because this limitation is soon overstepped and a moral significance is too easily pressed on architectural forms dictated only by a technical necessity or valid con vention there has come a reaction against this treatment of the subject. The dogmatism of Ruskin fell into dis favour. The fatal monuments of a mistaken Gothic are powerful advocates against the method which inspired them. Into a definition of beauty the Hebrew prophets could not, it was felt, appropriately enter, and the verdict of the senses was unregenerately preferred to any prin ciples derived from theirs. And indeed to find in the choice of a moulding or the carving of a grotesque a proof of a state's exaltation or of its pitiable abasement is a con venient theme for eloquence, but carries too seldom the conviction it invites.
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