![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was only how to put a core of truth within the ornaments, that every sugarplum, in fact, might have an almond or caraway seed in it-though I hold that almonds are most wholesome without the sugar-and not how the inhabitant, the indweller, might build truly within and without, and let the ornaments take care of themselves. A sentimental reformer in architecture, he began at the cornice, not at the foundation. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. ![]()
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