. The century illustrated monthly magazine . one before, not think-ing a bastard modern primitiveness a desir-able foundation; systematizing our efforts,not wasting ourselves in crude experiments ;keeping definite aims and ideals in view, notwaiting lazily for the spirit of the age tospeak through empty minds and untrainedhands. If hitherto we have seemed to showlittle enough of artistic aptitude, let us takecomfort from the confession that we have beenvery ignorant, and that we have had a verychildish trust in the capabilities of , be it noted, not only in the branch whichI have
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . one before, not think-ing a bastard modern primitiveness a desir-able foundation; systematizing our efforts,not wasting ourselves in crude experiments ;keeping definite aims and ideals in view, notwaiting lazily for the spirit of the age tospeak through empty minds and untrainedhands. If hitherto we have seemed to showlittle enough of artistic aptitude, let us takecomfort from the confession that we have beenvery ignorant, and that we have had a verychildish trust in the capabilities of , be it noted, not only in the branch whichI have dwelt upon as the most conspicuousexample, but in every other branch as well, thename of American architecture has been dis-graced by a multitude of works in which no ar-chitect ever had a hand. What should have been But there is no real analogy between the two cases —nothing more than the very shadowy analogy whichlies in the use of the same materials under totally dif-ferent social and temporal conditions. 14 AMERICAN COUNTRY FIREPLACE IN HOUSE OF ISAAC BELL, ESQ., NEWPORT. his task was confided too often to those whoclaimed his name without sufficient warrant,and as often to those who did not even dream ofclaiming it at all. Have we not seen how the builder wrought in our city homes whenthe speculator was his partner ? Are we notwell aware that he was often joined in asimilar partnership with a very different clientfrom the speculator — with the most lavishand ambitious of owners ? Do we not allknow in our own home neighborhoods thebuilders factories and warehouses, his townhalls and his public schools, his railway stations,even his churches ? And can we say that theirspecies is not still prolific ? Now at last it hascome into active competition with anotherand a better species. But that the fittest shall survive in this one special struggle forexistence, depends almost entirely on you towhom I speak — on the wide general publicof future clients, on the pat
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