The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 90
WE5T 51DE« porx:h of the-caryatides LATENT GEOMETRY 83 But architecture is geometrical in another and a highersense than this. Emerson says: The pleasure a palace ora temple gives the eye is that an order and a method hasbeen communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize, … 63 become tender or sublimewith expression. All trulygreat and beautiful works ofarchitecture—from the Egyp-tian pyramids to the cathedralsof Ile-de-France—are harmo-niously proportioned, their prin-cipal and subsidiary massesbeing related, sometimes ob-viously, more often obscurely,to certain…
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