The architecture of humanism; a study in the history of taste

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 163 the scope of our morality. This sop, which that Cerberus unchastised shows little disposition to accept, ...

i64 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Of those values the arts, enduring from the past, retaintheimpress. Withoutthearchitecture — ^to ...

CHAPTER VI THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY Ofallthecurrentsthathavelappedtliefeetofarchi- tecture,sincearchitecturefell toits presentruin ...

i66 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM was alive. Style itself, and not the succession of styles, engrossed men's thought. The sequenc ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 167 been its bearing upon the appreciation of Renais- sance architecture? Has it assisted us, or not, to ...

i68 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM modate the physical requirements of their piety. Secure in the merits of ' the better manner' t ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 169 knowledgeof theirantecedents. Exnihilo nihil fit; the nature of things is latent in their past. The m ...

170 THEARCHITECTURE OFHUMANISM climax. When there is prominence there is soon prestige. The coldest scrutiny must recognise one ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 171 century revoke. Here wasno processionofordered causes, but a pageant of adventures, a fantastic masqu ...

172 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM isnot merelythat theleastworthyfactsarestudied most, and that the stress falls rather on what i ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 173 place. Here,as atno othertime, is struck acom- plete equipoise between majesty and refinement. The ar ...

174 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM tecturalforms givesplacetorestlessness: dignityis puffed intodisplay. Thesenseofgrandeurbecomes ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 175 rigid, and inert. Simplicity becomesbarren, and a restrainedtaste,vacant. Andastheenddrawsnear this v ...

176 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM truethatoflateyearsaslightlymoreworthyapprecia- tionofthebaroquestyle— ^it wouldbetruertocall it ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 177 the early Renaissance a typical intention, a desire to please, quite different from Bramante's monu- ...

178 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM sofarasthey havepurposes in common. Weshall compare them with regard to their command of archit ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY \ 179 concrete,asnootherstylehasdone,themind's ideal of perfect humanism. But the authentic siiirit of Br ...

i8o THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM We do not seekto argue it mferior tothat which followedorpreceded: strictly, itisnotcomparable w ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY i8i tion of repose, which there had been satisfied at everypoint,washeredeferred,suspendedtoaclimax. Arch ...

i82 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM ence. So littleisit truethat the energy of arace risesandfallsinordered sequencethateveninartis ...