How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 264
ndred years—the country made little or no progress inthe arts and sciences. The intense struggle for life whichwas constantly going on between the natives and theinvaders created a condition which was destructive ofall real progress. Here, in the new West, Christians werefighting for their very… … fig. 96—canterbury cathedral (early norman and late gothic) HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE she was in later days, when the Christians of the Eastcalled on her for help against the Tatar Turks. These Western people struggled on hopelessly, and final-ly conquered for themselves and for their idealism.…
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