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And not only the form of edifices, but the sites selected for the as the syrave Greece crowned her mountains with a temple harmonious to the eye; India disembowelled hers, to chisel therein those ranite elephants

Thus, during the first six thousand years of the world, frooda of Hindustan, to the cathedral of Cologne, architecture was the great handwriting of the huious sye and its ins in theocracy and ends in de unity is written in architecture For, let us insist upon this point,the te the lyphs upon its pages of stone the mysterious tables of the law If it were thus,--as there comes in all human society a moment when the sacred symbol is worn out and becoht, when man escapes from the priest, when the excrescence of philosophies and systeion,--architecture could not reproduce this new state of huht; its leaves, so crowded on the face, would be empty on the back; its ould be mutilated; its book would he incoes, where we seeits first period, while theocracy is organizing Europe, while the Vatican is rallying and reclassing about itself the elements of a Rome made from the Rome which lies in ruins around the Capitol, while Christianity is seeking all the stages of society a with its ruins a new hierarchic universe, the keystone to whose vault is the priest--one first hears a dull echo fro from beneath the breath of Christianity, froments of the dead Greek and Roman architectures, that mysterious Roypt and of India, inalterable elyph of the papal unity All the thought of that day is written, in fact, in this sombre, Romanesque style One feels everywhere in it authority, unity, the iory VII; always the priest, never the man; everywhere caste, never the people