The Intellectual Life
The Intellectual Life
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The mediaeval builders not only used as quarries any Roman remains that happened to come in their way, but they spoiled the work of their own fathers and grandfathers by intruding their new fashions on buildings originally designed in a different style of art. When an architect in the present day has to restore some venerable church, he endeavours to do so in har- mony with the design of the first builder ; but such humility as this was utterly foreign to the mediaeval mind, which often destroy...ed the most lovely and neces- sary details to replace them with erections in the fashion of the day, but artistically unsuitable. The same dis- dain for the labours of other ages has prevailed until within the memory of living men, and our age is really the first that has made any attempt to conform itself, in these things, to the intentions of the dead. I may also observe, that although history is less relied upon as a guide to the future than it was formerly, it is more care- fully and thoroughly investigated from an intellectual interest in itself.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The mediaeval builders not only used as quarries any Roman remains that happened to come in their way, but they spoiled the work of their own fathers and grandfathers by intruding their new fashions on buildings originally designed in a different style of art. When an architect in the present day has to restore some venerable church, he endeavours to do so in har- mony with the design of the first builder ; but such humility as this was utterly foreign to the mediaeval mind, which often destroy...ed the most lovely and neces- sary details to replace them with erections in the fashion of the day, but artistically unsuitable. The same dis- dain for the labours of other ages has prevailed until within the memory of living men, and our age is really the first that has made any attempt to conform itself, in these things, to the intentions of the dead. I may also observe, that although history is less relied upon as a guide to the future than it was formerly, it is more care- fully and thoroughly investigated from an intellectual interest in itself.
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