Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 128
tion to hazard all, if need be, for the sake of the future.Such a sacrifice as this is happily uncalled for. The eternal, ever-changing serpent of civilisation and progress is not writhing in thethroes of a premature dissolution, but is only casting his skin, ashe has often cast it before. Art… … You will not have forgotten that the two factors of the firstfully realised spiral pattern were a waving line and a spot.Under the guidance of this waving line we developed all kindsof spirals, till in the last chapter we felt the evidence of its presencediminish in the evolution of the arcade and…
Decoration and ornament
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