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 43
of this kind are founded upon two mistaken supposi^ tions: the first, that one man^s thought can be, or ought to be, executed by another man^s hands; the second, that manual labour is a degradation, when it is governed by intellect. C On a large scale, and in work determinable by line and rule, it… … the mind of manhood by the hands of childhood. SavagenessBut on a smaller scale, and in a design whichcannot be mathematically defined, one man^sthoughts can never be expressed by another: andthe difference between the spirit of touch of theman who is inventing, and of the man who isobeying…
Architecture, Gothic
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