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 37
ls witheringwithin them, unthanked, to find their whole beingsunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be countedoff into a heap of mechanism numbered with itswheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes,this nature bade not; this God blesses not; thishumanity for no long time is able to endure. IE have… … into mere segments of men, broken into small Savagenessfragments and crumbs of life; so that all the littlepiece of intelligence that is left in a man is notenough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itselfin making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.Now it is a good & desirable thing,…
Architecture, Gothic
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