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Architecture and democracy (1918)

Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York : A. A. Knopf · leaf 142

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a symbol of thepotency of light to usher the human spirit intorealms of being at the doors of which music itselfshall beat in vain? Or if we compare the universeaccessible to sight with that accessible to sound—the plight of the blind in contrast to that of thedeaf—there is the same discrepancy;… … Harnessing the Rainbow of beauty. To the average man color—as color—has nothing significant to say: to him grass isgreen, snow is white, the sky blue; and to havehis attention drawn to the fact that sometimes grassis yellow, snow blue, and the sky green, is discon-certing rather than illuminating.…

Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924 · Architecture · Architecture -- United States · Decoration and ornament

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