Above all nations is humanity.
Continue ReadingAmerica is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Continue ReadingDante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in…
Continue ReadingEvery one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Continue ReadingIt is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and…
Continue ReadingWe must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
Continue ReadingYet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any…
Continue ReadingThe Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission…
Continue ReadingThe natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
Continue ReadingWhatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of…
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