pted to our customs, life, and habits. He is the true artistwho can thus adjust in a natural and straightforward way, with-out pedantry or affectation, the traditions of the past to thelife and need and ways of the present. The American house thus conceived will surely have one finaladvantage over… … On the Design of Houses 89 It is beautiful, no doubt, and exceedingly satisfactory tosome of our natural instincts, to imagine our far posteritydwelling under the same roof-tree as ourselves. Still, whenpeople insist on building indestructible houses, they incur, ortheir children do, a misfortune…
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