. Factory and industrial management . IIICII r-lRKKT, DXFORl), ENGLAND. AN ARRAIGNMENT OF CITY ARCHITECTURE. 39. A PART OF FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. cause esthetic perception is a faculty of slow growth, and those wholack it most are usually the most abundantly satisfied with their ownopinions. As an experimental test, compare half-a-dozen photographsof the average buildings along the principal streets of any of our citieswith the same number of similar photographs of the best buildings in theworld, architecturally considered,—buildings of similar size and in-tended for similar uses. There would
. Factory and industrial management . IIICII r-lRKKT, DXFORl), ENGLAND. AN ARRAIGNMENT OF CITY ARCHITECTURE. 39. A PART OF FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. cause esthetic perception is a faculty of slow growth, and those wholack it most are usually the most abundantly satisfied with their ownopinions. As an experimental test, compare half-a-dozen photographsof the average buildings along the principal streets of any of our citieswith the same number of similar photographs of the best buildings in theworld, architecturally considered,—buildings of similar size and in-tended for similar uses. There would be difference of opinion as to whichare the best buildings in the world, as there would be concerning thegreatest poets, musicians, or artists, but there will be no difficulty infinding work of whose intrinsic excellence there is no question. Hewho should be incapable of perceiving the superiority of the good insuch a comparison (which would be no crime, of course ; only a mis-fortune) would probably consider the hammering of an ill-bred childon the helpless keys of a piano just as agreeable as the magni
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