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The craftsman (1901)

New York [etc.] · leaf 208

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s the rawmaterial, but leaves it to man to con-vert this material to his needs by suchprocesses as he may invent. It is a longstep from the tree that grows in theforest, or the unquarried stone in thehills, to the houses in which we live.While Nature may furnish the raw ma-terial she does not… … FIGURE FIFTY-TWO. cannot be found in a study of thespecimen, however painstaking or ana-lytical that study may be. In Fig. 52 is a treatment of a Chi-nese lily that may claim to be dec-orative in character. A specimen hasbeen employed to express a definiteidea with no other change than…

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