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61, plates 51-55. — Flaxman's opening Lecture on Eng- lish Sculpture will be found particularly interesting. — The arts in Scotland were influenced by intercourse with France rather than England, but the iconoclasm of the Reformation has left few specimens either of her architecture or sculpture. Melrose Abbey, Roslin chapel, the Cathedral of Kirkwall, &c. Are among the most interesting relics of early Scottish art. Letter VIII. NORTH OF THE ALPS. 255 they could benefit society more in severanc...e than in combination, they necessarily were broken up. To Sculpture, indeed, Freemasonry had been un- propitious from the first ; its effect was to subordinate the sculptor too much to the architect, to make the former a mere tool in the hand of the latter. The rapid intercommunication of every improvement in mechanical expedients and in their application was of incalculable advantage to Architecture, dependent as she is on the laws of matter, of harmony and adjustment, but the effect on Sculpture was to check individual exertion, to create a general average style of workmanship, above which there was neither in- ducement nor opportunity to soar.
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