Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . (From tkc paintings hy Sir Edicin Laiuisecr, , in- the yationid tnillcry.) 236 THE NEW SPIRIT JKD TEE XEW PATHS. first on the suggestion of a Greek, afterwards on that of a Gothic,builder. The note of both movements was reproduction orniiniicry rather than application or development, and both oweda good deal to literature. The learned publication of Dawkinsand Wood had, as far back as 1750, drawn atten
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . (From tkc paintings hy Sir Edicin Laiuisecr, , in- the yationid tnillcry.) 236 THE NEW SPIRIT JKD TEE XEW PATHS. first on the suggestion of a Greek, afterwards on that of a Gothic,builder. The note of both movements was reproduction orniiniicry rather than application or development, and both oweda good deal to literature. The learned publication of Dawkinsand Wood had, as far back as 1750, drawn attention to theglorious ruins of Palmyra, and Adam, some ten years later,had made known to his countrymen the imposing remains ofDiocletian at Spalato. A similar work in serial form, dealingwith the architectural wonders of Greece, published under theauspices of the Society of Dilettanti (Vol. IV., p. 381) had alsoa considerable vosjue, so that when, in 1803, the arrival of theElgin Marbles (p. 6G6) showed a tangible Greece to Englishpeople, it was not unnatural that there should have been an ex-The plosion of something like enthusiasm. To reproduce a Greek or Re^viva^ even a Roman bui
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