. The Cathedral of commerce. HE man who proposes and the architect who designsa truly great building confer a lasting favor on therace at large. Our indebtedness to those who con-structed the Parthenon, the Coliseum at Rome, Cathedral in that city, St. Pauls in London,St. Marks inVenice and the pure Gothic of St. Chapelle and NotreDame in Paris, is utterly beyond ordinary methods of computa-tion. These monuments of rare beauty, devotion and civic pridefar outlast other achievements of their respective periods. Theirtrue value is not in stone nor in gold but in the spiritual aspira-ti
. The Cathedral of commerce. HE man who proposes and the architect who designsa truly great building confer a lasting favor on therace at large. Our indebtedness to those who con-structed the Parthenon, the Coliseum at Rome, Cathedral in that city, St. Pauls in London,St. Marks inVenice and the pure Gothic of St. Chapelle and NotreDame in Paris, is utterly beyond ordinary methods of computa-tion. These monuments of rare beauty, devotion and civic pridefar outlast other achievements of their respective periods. Theirtrue value is not in stone nor in gold but in the spiritual aspira-tions which they embodied and expressed. Brute material hasbeen robbed of its density and flung into the sky to challenge itsloveliness. Just as religion monopolized art and architecture during theMedieval epoch, so commerce has engrossed the United Statessince 1865. The close of the Civil War released the pent-up powersof a young nation, occupying a virgin soil, with the consequenceswe now witness. Multitudes flocked to our s
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