Preface
The following addresses, though spoken at different times, are
intentionally connected in subject； their aim being to set one or two
main principles of art in simple light before the general student, and
to indicate their practical bearing on modern design. The law which it
has been my effort chiefly to illustrate is the dependence of all noble
design, in any kind, on the sculpture or painting of Organic Form.
This is the vital law； lying at the root of all that I have ever tried
to teach respecting architecture or any other art. It is also the law
most generally disallowed.
I believe this must be so in every subject. We are all of us willing
enough to accept dead truths or blunt ones； which can be fitted
harmlessly into spare niches, or shrouded and coffined at once out of
the way, we holding complacently the cemetery keys, and supposing we
have learned something. But a sapling truth, with earth at its root and
blossom on its

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