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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
John Ruskin
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
John Ruskin
Book Excerpt: ...pretended that all, or even the greater number of, the principles necessary to the well-being of the art, are included in the inquiry. Many, however, of considerable importance will be found to develope themselves incidentally from those more specially brought forward. Graver apology is necessary for an apparently graver fault. It has been just said, that there is no branch of human work whose constant laws have not close analogy with those which govern every other mode of man's exertion. But, more than this, exactly as we reduce to greater simplicity and surety any one group of these practical laws, we shall find them passing the mere condition of connection or analogy, and becoming the actual expression of some ultimate nerve or fibre of the mighty laws which govern the moral world. However mean or inconsiderable the act, there is something in the well doing of it, which has fellowship with the noblest forms of manly virtue; and the truth, decision, and temperance, which we reverently regard as honor..
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 28, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798715152480 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 180 |
Dimensions | 216 × 280 × 10 mm · 430 g |
Language | English |
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