. Factory and industrial management . HOLBORN VIADUCT, LONDON. who are unaware of their own ignorance, and to whom instructionmust be given sugar-coated and in such form as to soothe rather thanwound their self-complacency. Aside from the objection to frank criticism that it might operateto injure the commercial value of private property, there is, in the. THE MANSION HOUSE AND CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. 44 AN ARRAIGNMENT OF CITY AR CHITECTURE. case of religious and benevolent institutions, a sentiment that the pur-pose of the building lifts it above the possibility of adverse com-ment, even as to its
. Factory and industrial management . HOLBORN VIADUCT, LONDON. who are unaware of their own ignorance, and to whom instructionmust be given sugar-coated and in such form as to soothe rather thanwound their self-complacency. Aside from the objection to frank criticism that it might operateto injure the commercial value of private property, there is, in the. THE MANSION HOUSE AND CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. 44 AN ARRAIGNMENT OF CITY AR CHITECTURE. case of religious and benevolent institutions, a sentiment that the pur-pose of the building lifts it above the possibility of adverse com-ment, even as to its outward form. Of course the most frequentillustrations of this are found in the nondescript churches whichmight easily be mistaken for country club-houses or extravagantstables. Shall we ever outgrow the notion that a shingled buttressgives an ecclesiastical expression to a wooden building that would bestronger and better without it ? At best it is but a caricature, andcaricature is the grossest form of irreverence. But wooden churchesare not the only ones that stand on the wrong side of the narrowchasm between the sublime and the ridiculous.
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