The Meaning of Architecture An Essay in Constructive Criticism
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These temples are the expression of man's religious nature, which takes its character from the life and [83] TYPES Of EARLY CAPITALS TYPES OF MOULDED P1ER.5. UNIT FORCES WORKING TOWARD THE COMMON END NOTE SUGGESTION OF ATTIC BASE- JL ii) w.- Tig 8 GOTHIC [8 4 ] BASE OF AN . ELABORATE1Y MOULDED PIER. 1 idealism of the age, and are not the embodiment of creeds. The classic temples were pagan when the thought was pagan ; they were Christian when the thought was Christian, but through all they were... classic. The Gothic temples were mediaeval always and were Christian only as mediaevalism shaped the Christian thought of that Era. If Christianity persists it will worship in temples different in form from either the classic or the Gothic, possibly in temples embodying some of the spirit of each (as did the Romanesque) ; or else the race will not advance, but will lapse into a barbarism from which there must be a new and altogether independent awakening; not a rebirth, but a new creation. As the Greek spirit manifested itself through- out the period of the Romanesque, so did it enter into the beginnings of the Gothic and express itself in abstract forms (Fig.
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