. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . lers frameof mind : For many years I lived very comfortably without a wife;and since the year 1820 I have been a monogamist. But I confessthat there is a sameness in the system. I should like very much totry polygamy for a few years. I wish Milton had explained theduties of a polygamist; for it is possiljle that they may be of a veryintricate, complicated, and unbounded nature, and that such an ac-cumulation of private business might be thrown on ones handsthat it could not be in the p
. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . lers frameof mind : For many years I lived very comfortably without a wife;and since the year 1820 I have been a monogamist. But I confessthat there is a sameness in the system. I should like very much totry polygamy for a few years. I wish Milton had explained theduties of a polygamist; for it is possiljle that they may be of a veryintricate, complicated, and unbounded nature, and that such an ac-cumulation of private business might be thrown on ones handsthat it could not be in the power of an elderly gentleman to overtakeit. Certainly, polygamy is the system according to which we havelived, and our practices have resulted in an accumulation of intricateand complicated business, quite beyond the artists talents. It doesnot do to noise the statement abroad, but the fact is acknowledgedfrankly bv those to whom the noble art of architecture is a matterof real concern, that the history of the last quarter of a century is,in great measure, the history of the process whereby the Architect.
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