San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 162
en thesemen who, in their fundamental human feel-ings and emotions were not in the leastdifferent from us of today, had an utterlydifferent conception of life and of what wasworth while. Henry Adams says thatthen men built cathedrals with an expec-tancy of gain and benefit quite as real asthat… … Pholo by Homer Hadky DOORWAY TO SACRISTY may be the reason, in those days men carvedin wood and stone and built mighty cathe-drals and developed Gothic architectureand believed they could do things and didthem that now we would wring our handsover the sheer impossibility of doing. Andso it is that…
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