The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Morris, William, 1834-1896, Kelmscott Press · Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen · leaf 32
m. You cannot makefi both. Men were not intended to y work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If youwill have that precision out of them, & make theirfingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and theirarms strike curves like compasses,you must unhu^manize… … Savageness must be bentuponthcfingcr^point^andthe souFsforce must fill all the invisible nerves that guide it,ten hours a day, that it may not err from its steelyprecision, and so soul and sight be worn away, andthe whole human being be lost at last; a heap ofsawdust, so far as its intellectual…
Architecture, Gothic
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