Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942 · New York, Scribner's · leaf 152
eal greatness of Amiens,and how it fails only in comparison with thethree perfect examples of an art that wholly ex-presses the great concept of mediaeval Catholic phi-losophy, that in life, as we know it, material andspiritual are inseparable, that their just balance isthe true end of man in this… … AMIENS AMIENS AND REIMS 113 of its several parts. The west front is still amasterpiece of consummate and wholly originaldesign, though the towers have been incon-gruously (but engagingly) terminated in latercenturies. The three great doors, the first andsecond arcades, and the rose-window story…
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