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

HUMANIST VALUES 243 longer content to rest for everin the restraint of 1 classic equipoise and calm. It has learned the! speech ...

CHAPTER IX ART ANDTHOUGHT I I Thought, whose claim is to enlighten, has for a centuryserved todull the taste forarchitecture, if ...

ARTAND THOUGHT 245 part,butaccepted. Shehadastoreofwisesayings, not new, but gratefully heard, and as constantly repeated. And s ...

246 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM Science in a lordly equipage. And, as they were flushed with wine and fullof thegayest andmost i ...

ART AND THOUGHT 247 reflections,bothingeneral andwith specialreference totheNurse,whose garrulous andgiddynaturewas alargepartof ...

248 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM tiveethics,scienceandtheology,fromtheirpractical reference,firstbecameandlongremained the reason ...

ARTAND THOUGHT 249 themselvesinthe treatment oftaskswhich religion, commerce,or societymayimpose. Thusinthecon- crete arts, thes ...

250 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM unpractised in intellectual logic, is not allowed to basehis preferenceswhereinfactthey stand,n ...

ARTAND THOUGHT 251 enjoyalogicalsimplicity. Forhim theMuses,duly ranged in order, are more aloof than the gods of Epicurusfromth ...

252 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM in effect, the treatise of Aristotle remains, of all efforts inaestheticcriticism, themost pene ...

ARTAND THOUGHT 253 abruptchangesofhistory ortheslowdecayof power, thesewereatanytime enfeebledor destroyed,some nucleus ever rem ...

254 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM the scene and the warfare ; through the dust of whichwhatconquered andestablished provinceswill ...

ART AND THOUGHT 255 onlymeans by which suchan analysiscanprofitably be obtained. Without that science, or, at any rate,withoutth ...

256 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISMf^ moraltastealonelayreadyformulated,itmadeth^m do aesthetic service. The ethical fallacy was the ...

ARTAND THOUGHT 257 Eeasures ' reactions ' and multiplies experiments — mtoo remote fromtheproblem ofthestyles. Such ' Iresearche ...

258 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM architecture obtains itseffects of Mass or Line,of Space or of Coherence ; and, further, how th ...

ARTAND THOUGHT 259 Further, Renaissance architecture was essentially an architecture of experiment. Other styles—the Greek, for ...

260 THE ARCHITECTURE OFHUMANISM tongue makes the drift of each of them minutely visible. WecompareGreekarchitecture withGothic, ...

ART AND THOUGHT 261 pathofsuchastyle, mightbetracked outthelaws, iflawsthere be,oftaste. Inthat studythe worstobstacles areofour ...

262 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM a classical repose. The architecture of humanism hasonitssidetheoldworldandthe new ; ithasthis r ...