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

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 123 asrelevant toarchitectural taste? Howfaronits own principlesdiditestablish acaseagainst Renaissance arch ...

124 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM The ethicalcriticofarchitecture hasthree different forms ofarrow inhis quiver, all ofwhich are ...

THE ETHICALFALLACY 125 Theattack ismetontheothersidebyacontuma- cious brevity of argument, appropriate indeed to martyrdom, but ...

126 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Romanticism, it is true, was concerned with the imaginative or poetic associations of style. But ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 127 isa form oftheromantic. Themoralappeal becomes imaginativeand thereligiousappeal poetic. Never- theless, ...

128 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM reduction, in effect, the ethical criticism of archi- tectureattemptedto achieve. Norwas therea ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 129 primarily with art. It was, in effect, a Puritan revival. The intellectual alternative was strict: eithe ...

130 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM its Republic with all the firmness, and something lessthanthe courtesy, which Plato extended to ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 131 gelicaladmonitions, were nowarbitrarilyassociated with the Pope,or—should theirseveritybe in any way mit ...

132 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Butthenew criticismdidnotlimit itselfto denunci- ation. A nioral code, at once eloquent and exa ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 133 influencewhich broughtitbacktoforce. Thedic- tator'sauthorityhaslongsince,byhisownextrava- gance,beendes ...

134 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM mereconvention, andeverythingwhich, outsidethe spiritofman, might exerciselordship overthe arts ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 135 passing totheirinnocent tasksthroughthecourtsof Hawkesmooror ofWren,were startled torecognise the Abomin ...

136 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM nowreacting. Ithad grownupalong withthe abuses which werehenceforthto beexpelled fromthemoral or ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 137 inertia,andthehypocrisyofadeadconvention. It promisednothing,and inthe commercialmonotony ofthetimethejo ...

138 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM crimination which, in thecollapse of theoldorder, men had indubitablylost,weredeclaredtobeofles ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 139 neveragainbeaddressed: ' ToallJoiners, Masons,I Plasterers, etc., and their Noble Patrons.' A vast j dem ...

140 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM critic issometimes thinkingofthe consequencesofa work upon the craftsman ,' sometimes of the en ...

THE ETHICAL FALLACY 141 iwere not necessarily the worst poets whom Plato jtirbanelyusheredoutofhisRepublic;forthepractical resul ...

142 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM interest in sculptureasopposed to architecture, the causesofwhichhave alreadybeentracedtoRomant ...