An Address Delivered At the Opening of the New Court House in Worcester
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But since the bene- ficent Author of our being has superadded to these, the senti- ment of symmetry and beauty, of elegance and grandeur, since the full development and gratification of these higher powers of the soul, tends to the purity and elevation, and thus to the happiness of the whole man, who shall say that all the means which tend to awaken and gratify these senti- ments, are not as much within the sphere of real utility, as those which provide for the wants of our external nature. The...y are therefore not beneath the just regard of those, who are entrusted with the great interests of social improvement. But in indulging a taste for improved architecture, we must never overlook that deeply seated and ever predominent sentiment of the mind, which has so great an influence it- self upon many of the rules of architecture, a sentiment of fitness, of propriety, of perceived adaptation of means to ends. — This almost instinctive perception of fitness often ren- ders that beautiful which without it would appear offensive.
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