Sesame & lilies, The two paths, & The king of the golden river (1909)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, J. M. Dent & co.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co · leaf 118
r so many, the protests of architects who haveno knowledge of sculpture—or of any other mode ofexpressing natural beauty—against natural beauty; andtheir endeavour to substitute mathematical proportionsfor the knowledge of Hfe they do not possess, and therepresentation of life of which they are… … eminently manifested in the specimen I have to give youof the hopeless Gothic barbarism; the barbarism fromwhich nothing could emerge—for which no future was possiblebut extinction. The Aristo-telian principles of the Beauti-ful are, you remember, Order,Symmetry, and the Definite.Here you have the…
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