Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 344
rebefore he had reached its lofty apex. § The Law of Development. No truth is more fre-quently impressed upon the close observer of progressin the grace and beauty of architectural forms than that Its Essential Elements. 321 no true advance in a style can be made unless all thatis best in its… … PERFECTED AND LATE GOTHIC SPIRES. into being when imperial grandeur haloed the hierarchy.New life ever introduces new forms, and the innate loveof the beautiful, planted in man by the Creator, developsthese forms from the crude to the perfect. Then de-cay sets in, and man, to hide the hand of death…
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